Re: Remove noatun also removes kde?
- From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:11:11 -0600
On Wednesday 2008 December 31 13:39:57 Bob McGowan wrote:
On Wed, 2008-12-31 at 11:03 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
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Completely normal. kde Depends on kdeaddons; kdeaddons Depends on
noatun-plugins; noatun-plugins Depends on noatun. Of course, the kde
package is not much (if any) more than a "meta-package"; it only exists
to pull in other dependencies. The kdeaddons package is similar.
I to was caught by this "issue" in my early exposure to Debian. So,
what's the quickest way to determine if a package is "meta-"?
Description, mainly. There's other reasons to have an empty or nearly empty
package that exists mostly for it's Depends/Recommends/Suggests.
An alternative / parallel approach is "Tasks" through tasksel or aptitude,
using them might be nicer for new users.
Would be nice if 'apt-get'/'aptitude' added a note to the item
indicating it was 'meta' and OK to remove. The only place I've ever
noticed this information is in the package description, which means it
may not be noticed.
Sounds like a job for debtags. It would be nice to have this as a release
goal for Squeeze, too. It's something simple that would make running Debian
easier.
*browses the DebTags site a bit*
Well, there's already a tag "role::metapackage", and there's already as number
of packages tagged with it, including kde and kdeaddons. I guess the next
step is to have apt-get/aptitude show that information when you need it. You
might file a wishlist bug against apt-get.
Perhaps it's not a good release goal 'cause it's already done. ;)
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