Shea Craig added the comment:

For what it's worth, I manage a lot of Macs and know a lot of people in similar 
roles at major enterprises. We greatly prefer installer packages for automated 
installation, and end up having to repackage installer apps routinely for 
products that don't use that mechanism. If it's not an app that can be dropped 
into the Applications folder, Apple installer packages really are the best 
format for enterprise deployment.

>From the development side I'm not familiar enough with the advantages of 
>trying to use a metapackage to bundle the contained packages, but I can say 
>that the version numbers all being 0 causes me to have to do some extra work 
>to ensure upgrades can be compared against what's already installed.

I assume the metapackage is used to create the ability for the user to choose 
to exclude some of the subpackages. This is not a feature I use in deploying 
the software, although I recognize its utility.

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nosy: +Shea Craig

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