  As a contribution to the current efforts to understand supersymmetry-breaking
by meta-stable vacua, we study general properties of supersymmetry-breaking
vacua in Wess-Zumino models: we show that tree-level degeneracy is generic,
explore some constraints on the couplings and present a simple model with a
long-lived meta-stable vacuum, ending with some generalizations to
non-renormalizable models.
