On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 06:10:15PM +0100, Julio M. Merino Vidal wrote:
> Hrm no.  Meta packages are a convenient way to make some well-known sets of 
> software available to users.  E.g. GNOME can be seen as a huge program 
> composed of many different components, and those components are defined by 
> what the GNOME project distributes as a GNOME release.
[...]
>
> How does that map to the lack of options?

Options destroy exactly that property.

Joerg