Re: killall is optional
On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 02:16:24AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> I would like to remind you killall is in the psmisc package which is
> Optional.
>
> There is two alternatives with Required packages:
>
> kill `pidof` (kill is in procps, pidof in sysvinit)
> skill or pkill (both in procps)
>
> procps is Required, sysvinit is Required and Essential: Yes.
... which of course means that you still need a dependency when using
kill. I suspect this is widely forgotten.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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