metapackage for lokalize

Matthias Julius mdeb at julius-net.net
Wed Jul 8 17:36:38 UTC 2009


Nick Shaforostoff <shaforostoff at kde.ru> writes:

> So my idea is to rename current lokalize package as it is to
> lokalize-core, and add a metapackage that would hard-depend on
> lokalize-core and all its additional dependencies.  So that an
> experienced user still will have the choice of installing only stuff
> he wants.
>
> Am I allowed to do this in trunk (i.e. targeting for KDE 4.3) Is this
> the right way to do? Maybe adding a comment about recommended packages
> to package description is enough?

Or to README.Debian.  I believe this is exactly what Recommends are
there for.  Recommends are installed by default on standard setups and
an experienced user can choose not to install them.

Matthias



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