On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 01:58:59PM +0100, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> * "Julian" == Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Julian> No policy yet. But they are intended as metapackages which
> Julian> contain no code,
>
> This is not a strict thing. Some of the meta-packages I maintain have
> additional info in the README.Debian, and I thought about a setup tool
> in one of them.
>
> So I'd say they are the glue between related packages, for a rather
> wide interpretation of glue.
I would call it a _very_ wide interpretation of glue. For example,
task-devel-common doesn't depend on anything; it only suggests and
recommends.
I'm also wondering how a naive user would choose between, e.g., samba
and task-samba, or gnome-network and task-gnome-net.
Peace,
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