Re: Bug#5721: mime-support killed by perl problem
Brian White:
> I would suspect that any package that calls perl in its postinst is also
> susceptable to this problems. Since I was at one point told not to bother
> putting in dependancies on essential packages, others may be doing the
> same and could also cause the same type of error.
The situation with Perl is regrettably somewhat unclear. It will
become clearer when Perl has been split into different packages for
its base (Essential) and non-base components.
Perl will work fine even before its postinst has been run (or the .deb
installed), but most attempts to `use' or `require' things will not
work.
> I suppose this could also happen with all of the other "essential"
> packages, though most don't do anything in their configuration that
> would leave them in an unworking state.
No Essential package should ever be in an unworking state, because
then (by the definition of Essential) the system would be unfixable.
Ian.
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