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Re: e2fsprogs not esential anymore?



On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote:
> Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just
> removes the tag from any and every package automatically. No ill effects
> have been identified so far. Sometimes I wonder if Debian actually
> needs Essential any more for anything particularly useful or
> commonplace.

Then you clearly don't understand the purpose of Essential.

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