Re: ncurses build options...

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: ncurses build options..."):
> Should all packages which use common unix commands provided
> by essential digest packages such as cat (textutls), echo
> (shellutls), mkfs (miscutls) declare explicit dependencies on
> the digest packages they need,

No.

>   or is the fact that the digest
> packages are essential sufficient to omit explicit declaration
> of dependencies on them?

Yes.

> If essential packages depend on shared libs, should those
> essential packages declare dependencies on nonessential shared
> libs?

Yes.

>   Should essential packages be dependent on nonessential
> shared libs?

There is no problem with this.

Ian.