Re: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] procps with pidof is released

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 12:18:00PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
[...]
> AIUI, you've also proposed including the following list of binaries in
> procps-base:
> 
>  > procps-base: pidof, ps, sysctl, pgrep, pkill
> 
> Currently, the *only* one of these which is used as part of the essential
> set is pidof.  Why would you put any of the rest of these in an essential
> package, given that you already have a binary package split between the
> Essential: yes procps-base and the Essential: no procps?
[...]

Discussed here:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.general/185723/focus=185725

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