website wrote: > If we think on debian desktop not like a new distro, but a package, a > false package that contains only dependencies, it can use the power of > apt to solve the dependencies and installs a lot of useful programs > (that now you need to add one to one) all in one package.
This is similar to the "meta-packages" used in Debian for GNOME and other environments. For example, the meta-gnome2 packages, which allows one to "apt-get install gnome-core" to install a basic GNOME environment, or "apt-get install gnome" to get a full desktop OS.
