Excessive package interdependency

[Chris Ricker]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 17:18, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > That's why virtual bundles should be "loose" and not mandatory links
> > like current package deps. They'd be used to register "areas of
> > interest", with the user prompted when one of the installed bundles
> > perimeter changed (ie you have the Gnome bundle installed - Gnome has
> > been expanded to include metacity-cd-burner do you want to install it ?)
> 
> Not really... then you have to differentiate "new" vs "there before, you
> just chose not to install it" which gets back to the problems I already
> stated :(

Why do you have to differentiate? On an upgrade, just show them everything
they don't have in a groups view and ask what they want....

later,
chris