ubuntu-desktop metapackage?

Scott James Remnant scott at netsplit.com
Fri Sep 24 10:02:03 CDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-09-23 at 13:42 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> - 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?
> 
+1 with ubuntu-base as well.

Scott
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