Re: Git has too many freaking dependencies

[Adam Jackson <ajackson redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 18:36 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le vendredi 15 février 2008 à 11:13 -0500, Yaakov Nemoy a écrit :
> 
> > Before I go and submit a bug, I would like to ask why git requires
> > that i install so many dependencies? 
> 
> Because git is not git, git is a metapackage.
> Welcome to metapackage hell.

Is it insane to propose that metapackages must be explicitly named as
such?

- ajax