On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 08:08 -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: [...] > If you use Depends, the user has two choices, install everything, or not > use the metapackage. > > Take the metapackage games-finest. If all of those packages were > Depends instead of Recommends, you could not remove a small handful of > the larger games (e.g. wesnoth, at 153M) without marking every single > game you wanted to keep as "manual" and then removing the metapackage. > You then lose the ability to remove all of those games simply by > removing the metapackage. [...]
Installation of a package from the 'metapackages' section does *not* mark its dependencies as automatically installed. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Hoare's Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.
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