Joey Hess wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: >> Metapackages are great. Need to add KDE to a system? Wham. Done. >> If you don't like them, don't install them. > > The kde metpackage is a spacial case, since KDE is all one related > thing, that shares a release schedule. And yet it still causes many of > the problems I mentioned. This is why you'll see the release team time > and time again having large transitions involed in getting KDE into > testing. The gnome metapackages have the same issues.
Note that the KDE meta packages are only really taken care of near a release because of the transitioning problems... If the meta packages get to testing earlier it's very probable they will not be installable for a long time... Cheers Luk -- Luk Claes - http://people.debian.org/~luk - GPG key 1024D/9B7C328D Fingerprint: D5AF 25FB 316B 53BB 08E7 F999 E544 DE07 9B7C 328D
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