On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 10:00:31PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Branden> A list of criteria other than "just run for F in $(grep-available -F
> Branden> Essential -s Package yes | awk '{print $2}'); do dpkg -L $F | egrep
> Branden> '^/s?bin/.'; done", that is.
>
> Sounds like a fine criteria to me. Any particular reason this
> is not good enough?
It changes over time. Additions are arguably not a problem at all;
removals can be.
I'd *still* rather see us *document* our collective wisdom with respect
to what "minimal" means.
Is anybody particularly cheesed off that Decklin Foster put nc in /bin?
If not, what rules of thumb should we be using? Obviously the X server
falls on the other side of the line. Where is the line?
Oh, incidentally, this raises an auxiliary point. netcat isn't
Essential. At present, it's not even standard. An early-running init
script can have its package Depend on netcat, but until Decklin moved nc
to /bin, the init script *still* wouldn't work.
Therefore, I think we really do have two separate issues here.
Essentiality and /usrness. This points up the even greater need for a
definition of a minimal system.
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