ubuntu-desktop metapackage?

[Matt Zimmerman]

A brief IRC discussion started about this due to ubuntu-sounds.  Currently,
no one has ubuntu-sounds installed, and it's not entirely appropriate for an
existing package to depend on it, so users who are upgrading will not get
the sounds.  This is either a bug or a feature.

Considering it a bug, there are some possible solutions:

- Add a script to ubuntu-base, of the sort which would be used as part of
  the woody->warty upgrade process, which lets the user say "give me the
  current ubuntu desktop stuff", and does so

- Create an ubuntu-desktop metapackage which depends on everything in the
  DesktopSeed, so that when it is upgraded, new packages are installed.
  This is particularly nice because of the change semantics: if the user
  removes one of the desktop packages, ubuntu-desktop is uninstalled,
  and the user's changes are preserved.  So, users who accept the
  default package selection get new ones automatically, and others
  are left alone.

Thoughts?

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 - mdz