Virtual (meta-) packages

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 09:08:04AM +0300, Jani Tiainen wrote:
>Could setup be extended (or even used in current form) to have virtual 
>packages that could install some basic tools as a whole working 
>combination, like X11 server? More or less like it is done in Debian (my 
>favourite Linux distribution)
>
>I recently wondered where my X11 start scripts went and found out that 
>I've missing startup-scripts. It would be more convenient to have 
>virtual package that installs "all" for that first time so you don't 
>have to know what you're installing... It would be helpful.

If you want all of the X packages then click on the "Default" next to
the X11 category in "Select Packages" dialog until it says "Install".

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