Re: mawk is a required package but I have replaced it with gawk

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>]

Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> I see mawk is a required package, but I have replaced it with gawk.
> Why isn't there some meta package called awk, where either mawk or
> gawk will satisfy it?

     awk is a symlink managed by update-alternatives.  You can easily
make it point to gawk.  See update-alternatives(8).

Regards,

Bob
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