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Re: non-essential required packages



Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
> Can't we make this essential? I think it is useful to be able to do
> "adduser --system" instead of juggling with useradd in a
> postinst. It's tiny, too.

If you use useradd in your postinst, you'll need to depend on passwd anyway.
So why not depend on adduser?
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