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Re: base-config depends on aptitude!



* Otto Wyss <wyo@users.sourceforge.net> [2003-12-29 10:45]:
> Why does base-config now depend aptitude! Can't base-config be used
> without? IMO a recomends should be the outmost.

See http://bugs.debian.org/225344

Joey Hess wrote:
> Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
> > Why does "base-config" depend on aptitude?  I think that
> > "suggests" is more appropriate.
>
> As a heavy-handed means to get debootstrap to install aptitude in
> time for beta 2 of debian-installer.
>
> I will try to come up with a better solution later.

-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com



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