Is there a way to create a "metapackage"?

[pigsflew]

This would be a package that contains a list of packages that should be installed as dependencies, and otherwise does nothing.

I attempted to create the following:

graalvm.json

{
    "description": "Alias for `graalvm-jdk11`: GraalVM Community Edition; powered by OpenJDK 11.",
    "version": "1.0",
    "depends": "graalvm-jdk11"
}

but attempting to install it says graalvm does not support 64bit architecture.

I'd like it to simply do nothing and install the dependencies.

[Deide]

No, but it could be tangentially connected to #3934

EDIT: You could probably work around it by defining a dummy program though. But I'd have imagined that the point of something like this is to keep the versions of dependencies in sync somewhat.

[pigsflew]

That would work, yeah--I'll give it a shot. I still think It'd be cool to have this as a feature though, maybe with a type flag or something.

Thanks for the help!

[rashil2000]

#2155