I still think it is ok to create the new metapackage now for universe. There are a lot of desktop flavors that do install from universe and you could manually add the recommends to one of those flavors if you want and if the flavor leads are ok with it.
I still think it is ok to create the new metapackage now for universe. There are a lot of desktop flavors that do install from universe and you could manually add the recommends to one of those flavors if you want and if the flavor leads are ok with it.