[clug] Debian meta-packages?

[Daniel Pittman]

Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> writes:
> 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.

Heh.  It does work, FWIW, provided you use pre-depends for everything.
It just isn't recommended. :)

        Daniel
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