Steve Langasek wrote: > Those are exactly the correct semantics. It makes no sense to remove the > depends of a metapackage *and leave the metapackage installed* - what > purpose would that serve?
Being able to # apt-get --purge remove wicd (thus removing any dependency/recommends/anything), without caring for the removed parts singularly? However, seems like on IRC we reached kind of a consensus on the fact that metapackages should use Recommends instead of Depends. I plan to do a mass- bug filing on this issue sooner or later, just need some time to do it :) I might change this DEP to propose a new field, halfway betwen Recommends and Depends (as weasel suggested, Weak-Depends), but haven't carefully thought at it yet. David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
