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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