Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > Le vendredi 12 octobre 2012 à 21:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit : >> For lack of a better synopsis, the argument there is "because recommends >> do not behave properly across upgrades". > > And also, the purpose of metapackages is to ship dependencies.
Repeating this more times doesn't make it more true. The purpose of metapackages is to deliver meta-data, including dependency information. That information does not have to be, and in many cases should *not* be, in the form of hard dependencies. Bdale
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