[Bug 647202] Re: Support for metapackages

2012-06-25 Thread Gary Lasker
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[Bug 647202] Re: Support for metapackages

2011-09-28 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
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[Bug 647202] Re: Support for metapackages

2011-09-27 Thread Iain Lane
You can search for "meta package" or "metapackage" in descriptions and see if you think it would make sense to display any of those. I think in most cases a metapackage means that the maintainer has been thoughtful enough to try to provide a convenient bundle of software for users and it would be n

[Bug 647202] Re: Support for metapackages

2011-09-27 Thread Kiwinote
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[Bug 647202] Re: Support for metapackages

2011-09-08 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
Iain, thanks for this bug report, and sorry for the slow response. You say that for Smuxi, "Other functionality is provided by separate packages". What packages in particular are you referring to? As far as I can see, you're probably referring to smuxi-engine-irc and smuxi-engine- twitter. It woul

[Bug 647202] Re: Support for metapackages

2010-09-25 Thread Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi
If we wish to support metapackages, we should also support removing all the packages that this metapackage depends on and possibly recommends, in addition to having a .desktop file for that metapackage. @mpt: suggestions? Do you think metapackages should be supported? ** Changed in: software-cent