Joe Smith wrote:
Counter proposal:
New meta-package Boolean field.
Meta-packages would normally have few or no Depends, being almost
completely recommends.
Recommends (perhaps also Depends) of meta-packages are not marked as
automatically installed.
The usefulness of this part of my counter proposal is debatable. It allows
removing the meta-package without removing the installed packages. If that
is not desired, then don't include it. That would make meta-packages special
only due to the following:
Attempting to install a meta-package if apt is not configured to install
recommends by default will terminate in an error, rather than completing,
unless a force flag was passed. (This is to ensure the meta-package does
not basically completely fail if that setting is off, without spitting out
some form of error).
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