Difference between Emacs metapackage and Emacs

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Published on 2011-12-16T23:51:58Z Indexed on 2012/03/31 5:40 UTC
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I have the following sources enabled: main, universe, restricted and multiverse. On Ubuntu Software Center on 11.10 I see two packages for Emacs:

What is the difference between metapackage version and non-metapackage one?

By the way, this thread What differences are there between the various version of Emacs available? also explains the difference between two Emacs versions: Emacs and Emacs-snapshot, and interestingly I don't see these packages now on my Ubuntu Software Center.

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