From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Mon, 13 Jun 2022 04:41:45 +0000, Lew Pitcher wrote:   
   > So, I ask, has anyone here experimented with this metapackage idea? If   
   > so, how did you approach it, what did you do, and how did it turn out?   
      
   Yes, I have done custom packages that does install other packages from   
   their doinst.sh script. However, the purpose of those packages have not   
   been to group packages together so my cases has been a little different.   
   Also, my packages has not included the sub packages, instead I have been   
   able to rely on the fact that the sub packages has been available on a   
   mounted NFS directory.   
      
   One example of a package installing another package is a package which   
   checks if the machine has an nVidia card with the binary driver installed   
   and if so, updates the driver to a newer version.   
      
   For initial installation of packages with recursive dependencies I   
   usually rely on dependency tracking from something like the slpkg   
   tracking of dependencies from slackbuilds.org. I also have some groups of   
   packages in separate directories on the NFS server with packages.   
      
   As you say, package management is more than installing packages. It is   
   also about being able to update and remove packages.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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