metapackages- Yes , please

[Wouter Stomp]

On 9/26/05, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> I think Dennis's idea is a good one - we daily see on #ubuntu people who are mystified by the process of installing packages needed to achieve what *they* perceive as straightforward aims. This is particularly so for multimedia, as others have noted in this thread.
>
> I can't comment on the technicalities of doing this, but I would encourage developers to think like users in this case. Rather than needing to find a howto, or be directed to a wiki page, people could obtain working solutions by installing one meta-package. Seems like a great idea to me...
>

And a great place to find such a metapackage would be the add/remove
programs program in a separate section for codecs, fonts, plugins etc.
See this bug as well:

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13807

Wouter.