Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu> writes: > On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 04:11:12PM +0200, Ole Streicher wrote: >> Marvin Renich <m...@renich.org> writes: >> > A metapackage should not be used as a bat to beat users into installing >> > ALL of something. It should be a tool to help users install all of >> > something if they wish, but users should still have as much control as >> > is reasonable to pick and choose a partial subset if it works for them. >> >> Couldn't that be carved in stone^UPolicy? > > I admit I have not verified policy whether it is that drastically but > the paragraph above is what I understood as rough consensus in all > discussion about this.
It seems that some ftp-masters have a different opinion about this. And the thread shows, that there are others that won't agree here (see the xfce argumentation). Cheers Ole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/874mknrngg....@debian.org
