[Fedora-packaging] meta-package guideline needed ?

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Mon Jan 12 13:43:23 UTC 2009


Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Also some packages of the group can be removed, while a meta-package
> prevents that, as long as the meta-package itself is present. This 
> can also be seen as an advantage, depending on the situation, but it is
> definitely a difference.
And in my situation removing any package in the "group" would break the 
external software that the meta package has simplified the install of.

DaveT.




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