On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:41:40PM -0700, Stephen Hahn wrote:

>   You're both right.  Both incorporating and group packages should have
>   optional dependencies, but group packages should have a package tag
>   that says, "for install, include optional dependencies", so that users
>   (and GUIs) don't need to remember some variable flag.  Perhaps
>   pkg.policy.install_optional?

Do we want a control that's low-level like that, or a tag that simply says
that the package is a group package, and let the packaging system figure
out what that means?

Danek
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