It should be the role of metapackages to handle which packages are installed onto which desktop environment.
The gnome metapackage already pulls synaptic. If we decide one day to replace it, it shouldn’t need two changes, one in gnome and one in tasksel. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org