[PLUG] Debian metapackages

Paul Johnson baloo at ursine.ca
Thu Nov 13 20:50:02 UTC 2003


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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 10:57:16PM -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> Is it correct to think of metapackages as 'fakey' packages?

Yup.  A metapackage is a package with no files, only dependencies.

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