[clug] Debian meta-packages?

Alex Satrapa grail at goldweb.com.au
Tue Nov 2 19:55:53 MDT 2010


On 03/11/2010, at 12:42 , Daniel Pittman wrote:

> No, there is not.  Debian policy is that packages MUST NOT modify
> configuration belonging to other packages under /etc, which means that their
> tools don't really support this well at all…

Well, Debian policy nixes my question quite neatly :)  Metapackage for the dependencies, Puppet for all the plumbing.



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