Re: POSIX shell; bash ash pdksh & /bin/sh
Hi,
I stnad corrected, then. If mawk/awk was not the package from
whome the essential flag was removed, which was it then?
manoj
>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
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Santiago> On 3 Aug 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Santiago> I don't buy the idea of an "implied promise". Other
Santiago> essential packages have been downgraded to required, and
Santiago> nobody *ever* talked about "implied promises". Yes, bash is
Santiago> *currently* more important than those packages, but the
Santiago> difference here is only cuantitative, not qualitative.
>>
>> Please refresh my memory. The only package so downgreaded, in
>> case you have forgotten, was made into a virtual package that also
>> was a dependency of an essential package; and the reasons for doing
>> so were that other packages could provide it.
>>
>> Does not look like no one raised a fuss. To all intents and
>> practices, an awk package is essential.
Santiago> No awk package was ever essential, at least not in Debian 1.3.1.
Santiago> No awk package was *downgraded* from essential to non-essential.
Santiago> However, I have not heard any horror stories about a
Santiago> package to break because of awk not being in the
Santiago> system. Why not? Because mawk was "Priority: required".
No, because base-files, an essential package, depends on
awk. Dependencies of essential packages are paid a great deal
of attention to.
manoj
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