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Re: IMPORTANT: What can we do about the base package?



"Kai" == Kai Henningsen <kai@khms.westfalen.de> writes:

Kai> Unfortunately, dselect tells people that base is
Kai> obsolete. People *will* try to remove it.

Yes, I admit it -- I did this once, thinking it had been superceded by
base-files, and stupidly telling dpkg to ignore the "essential" flag.

It was not pretty.


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