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On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:08:44 -0400
"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:

> More seriously -- creating a metapackage is indeed non-obvious.  I
> just built one (not yet committed -- there are still some issues) and
> it took several tries and checks of how existing metapackages work.

That sounds not only strange but ominous... I've always thought about meta-package as a sort of pkg_add runing against a file with package names in it. Nothing more. Dependencies were to be downloaded automatically as usual.

Regards,
pp

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Przemysław Pawełczyk <pp@kv.net.pl>

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