On Sat, 11 Aug 2001, Taral wrote: > I know it's been discussed before, so could someone please summarize the > reason why bash is not a pre-dependency of libc6? Since bash is "Essential: yes", perhaps? (and thus cannot be removed from your system without dpkg screaming like hell that this is very dangerous and that you have to know what you're doing) -- wouter dot verhelst at advalvas dot be "Human knowledge belongs to the world" -- from the movie "Antitrust"