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Re: Adding a Pre-Depends on debconf in console-common?



On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:37:58AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:
> It's really ok at all that a preinst depends on debconf?

It's mentioned in debconf-devel(8), so ...

> AFAIK, most packages which use debconf work ok when debconf is not
> installed.

This one does '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule' (as do most of them, in
fact). Unless I miss my guess, that'll return an error when debconf is
not installed.

Relatively few packages bother to adjust their behaviour depending on
whether debconf is or isn't installed these days.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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