Reco writes: > The parent thread shows that at least some of the users are > confused by metapackages.
I think that most users are totally ignorant of the nature or even the existence of metapackages. As far as they are concerned the Lxqt package *is* Lxqt and there is no way to get Lxqt other than to install that package. I don't see any effective way to explain it to them, either. It's not clear to me why metapackages don't make more use of Recommends, though. I understand that DE users expect a DE to provide an archiver, but why does Lxqt *require* one? Isn't installation of Recommends still turned on by default? Perhaps there's a need for "Weak-Depends" such that Weak-Depends will always be installed but can be removed with no more than a warning? This would be used whenever the maintainer cannot imagine why anyone would want to install package A and not package B, but A doesn't absolutely require B. All or almost all of the dependencies in metapackages would then be weak. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA