Re: mawk is a required package but I have replaced it with gawk
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 03:45:59AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > I was thinking that to have a "valid" debian system, all "required"
> > packages must be installed.
>
> < That's true for essential package, but required != essential.
>
> /usr/share/doc/debian/FAQ/debian-faq.en.txt.gz:
> 6.7. What is a _Required_, _Important_, _Standard_, _Optional_, or _Extra_
> package?
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Each Debian package is assigned a _priority_ by the distribution
> maintainers, as an aid to the package management system. The
> priorities are:
>
> * _Required_: packages that are necessary for the proper
> functioning of the system.
>
> This includes all tools that are necessary to repair system
> defects. You must not remove these packages or your system may
> become totally broken and you may probably not even be able to
> use dpkg to put things back.
>
> I will file a bug to get essential added to this file. It is mentioned
> in debian-policy but not here.
Please do the same to debian-reference since it shares the same
contents in its Chapter 2. Patch will be nice.
FYI: FAQ oe my documents, these are secondary information. So use them
with care and contribute their improvement :-) THX.
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