[packagekit] RFC - easy install/remove

[James Westby]

On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 12:55 -0500, Ken VanDine wrote:
> The idea of meta packages is certainly cool, but I don't think it
> should be up to PackageKit to solve it.  This should really be handled
> by the package manager.  I know conary already has the ability to do
> this.  Anyone know if dpkg or rpm handle this yet?

Apt does what I believe the OP is asking for.

If you remove a package then anything that was automatically installed
as a dependency of that package is removed, provided that nothing else
depends on it of course.

This then works for "meta-packages", as it all looks the same to apt.

Thanks,

James