24 Aug
2010
24 Aug
'10
2:15 a.m.
2010/8/24 Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
What do you mean by "metapackages"?
Metapackage are packages of packages, they don't provide something by themselves, but they have a dependency list so that a set of package can be installed together. For example, on ubuntu, installing "build-essentials" will pull gcc, make, autoconf, etc from the repositories. Another example would be the haskell platform, on debian it's a metapackage that depends on all the individual packages of libraries and tools that belong to the platform. David.