Bug#688772: gnome Depends network-manager-gnome

[Bdale Garbee]

Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> writes:

> Le vendredi 12 octobre 2012 à 21:07 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a écrit :
>> For lack of a better synopsis, the argument there is "because recommends
>> do not behave properly across upgrades".
>
> And also, the purpose of metapackages is to ship dependencies.

Repeating this more times doesn't make it more true.  The purpose of
metapackages is to deliver meta-data, including dependency
information.  That information does not have to be, and in many cases
should *not* be, in the form of hard dependencies.

Bdale
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