Re: non-essential required packages

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Anthony Towns wrote:

> Hello world,

Hi Anthony,

>...
> Of those remaining,
>
>     console-data/console-tools/console-tools-libs
>     ldso, makedev, procps
>
> look like good candidates for essential: yes markers, at least for the
> architectures that actually use them.
>...


ldso can be savely removed from an installation now that ldconfig and ldd
are in libc6.

console-data/console-tools/console-tools-libs: Why should they be
essential? At least on i386 they aren't really needed.


> Cheers,
> aj

cu,
Adrian

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