On 2012-07-10 16:18, Gergely Nagy wrote: > But the purpose of the meta-package is to pull stuff in. Depends does > that, Recommends does not, therefore Recommends is not appropriate for > the task.
Surely Recommends does pull stuff in. It's clearly reflected in Debian policy and supported by most if not all high-level packages managers in Debian. Therefore it's totally appropriate for the task. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++ GNU/Linux developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120710151412.GB5107@r500-debian