metapackages- Yes , please

[Reinhard Tartler]

On 9/26/05, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Please keep in mind that most new users have no idea what, say, gstreamer0.8-mad is, for example. They just want a simple way to play their mp3 collection - or whatever...
>

And don't care for legal reasons. I know. We as developers cannot
ignore those issues, you know.

> >But with the current proposal, I don't see
> > much profit.
>
> *Users* would profit - much easier to find a package called multimedia-foo than something like gstreamer0.8-plugins etc . The description in synaptic should make it clear what the installation will achieve - for example "This package enables the playing of mp3 in totem or rhythmbox and adds support for foo, bar and flurble" and so on.

>From a metapackage with just 2 packages? sorry.

I still wait for serious suggestions.

Btw, you are all welcome to join the MOTUMedia Team
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTUMedia. I think this could be a team task.
We'll see.


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regards,
    Reinhard