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Siduction Forum => Upgrade Warnings => Topic started by: df8oe on 2016/09/05, 10:17:24
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About KDE now all is ok - all packages seem to reach unstable. But now since a few days package "gnome" is to be removed. I am unsure f this is really bad because its a metapackage ??
best regards
Andreas
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Let it go. Metapackages are useful exactly once for installing. There's no content, just a list of dependencies.
73,
dg1ees
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Many thanks. Everything worked fine and system is still alive (and actual state now) :)
Best regards
Andreas
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Hello df8oe,
metapackages are convenient to install, but maintaining such sid installs isn't.
Especially the gnome package makes use of hard dependencies to pull applications.
As a consequence it will break each time, when a glitch in packaging happens.
E.g. packages gnome and quadrapassel in sid/amd64 are linked by hard dependency chain:gnome ▶ gnome-games ▶ quadrapasselThis means you can't keep installed the gnome or gnome-games package without the quadrapassel game and the debian gnome maintainers want this behaviour. Even the debian stable release tends to break https://bugs.debian.org/715555 (because back in wheezy you couldn't have gnome without xul-ext-adblock-plus).
siduction doesn't install metapackages but maintains a list of packages and allows the user to modify the selection. Well, recently we have had discussions about this design. Feel free to comment.
greetings
musca
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This behaviour is quite ok. Now I know this and there is no need to change anything. There are different ways to handle these dependencies and I am not able to point at "the one way which is the best". I think there is no such way.
I amworking using siduction since two yearsand Igot solved EVERY problem that occurs by myself (and a little help from google / nswers in this forum here).
Good work you al do for the community!!!
Best regards
Andreas