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Can we have "metapackages" displayed in software center

Asked by Peter Clifton

As an application developer, I think the software center is cool, but we develop a suite of Electronic design tools. Typically it does't make sense to install one - and not the other, although it is nice to see them all separately in software-center with their respective screen-shots (when I've uploaded them!)

Anyway.. for a typical, _working_ install, users would install the "geda" metapackage, which pulls in geda-gschem, geda-gnetlist, ... and all the "boring" non-graphical parts of the suite which are not shown at all in the software-center.

Right now, if I search for "geda", I only get the three GUI apps which install a .desktop file, and installing them on their own is not going to give the user a good working experience!

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Peter Clifton (pcjc2) said : 		#1

Is there some way of providing a "fake" .desktop file in the metapackage which software-center will find, but does not get installed?

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Best Kiwinote (kiwinote) said : 		#2

"geda" and other meta-packages show up in the current lucid build.

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Peter Clifton (pcjc2) said : 		#3

Thanks, this looks like a very promising development in software center.