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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