On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Matthias Drochner wrote:

: > * Then, once all of the above packages are committed with CONFLICTS set to
: >  "gcc-[0-9]*", change "gcc" to be just a meta-package of the above.
:
: I'm not sure we need a meta pkg including all parts. No application
: needs all at once.

The point is to provide a "this is all of gcc3" meta-package for humans who
want precisely that.  In the way that there's a x11/kde3 package, but you
don't have to install all of it (I don't)....

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