Re: duplicates in the archive
- To: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>
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- Subject: Re: duplicates in the archive
- From: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:06:11 +0100
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Josselin Mouette writes ("Re: duplicates in the archive"):
> Le mardi 10 juillet 2012 à 17:38 +0900, Miles Bader a écrit :
> > What's wrong with Recommends: in that case? It seems to perfectly
> > match the "makes life easier for <common but not universal use-case
> > XXX>" scenario you describe.
>
> Recommends is wrong for metapackages because it gets upgrades very
> wrong. This is why it is used very marginally.
Could you please explain this in more detail in the specific case of
gnome-core and network-manager ? I'm not sure I understand the
problem.
Thanks,
Ian.
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