On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:18:48PM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 05:58:20PM -0500, David Nusinow wrote: > > That said, I don't really understand why it's Ok for Ubuntu to do this but > > not us. > > Ubuntu never installs python-minimal without python, even in base. Ah, ok. Then why bother with the package at all then? Why not just make all of python Essential: yes? - David Nusinow