]] Sean Whitton > Could you explain why you want to do this with metapackages, rather than > extending the definition of an archive section so that non-free and > contrib may be more finely divided up? The various implementation > problems that have been raised in this thread are all/mostly due to the > use of metapackages.
A package can only be in a single section. I'd look at tagging the packages with debtags and doing a debtags search on installed packages instead of faffing with metapackages. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are
