On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:50:47PM +1000, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Err? WTF happened there? I wrote that, as the Sender: and signature indicate, not Wichert. How fucked up. > Wichert wrote: > > Previously Daniel Quinlan wrote: > > > Also, given the dependencies on c++ and ncurses already, adding libz which > > > dozens of packages depend on seems like a trivial addition. > > The dependencies of dpkg itself are minimal and do not include c++ and > > ncurses. [...] > > This change was made on purpose to make sure that dpkg will be > > useable on broken systems where libz might not be working correctly > > and to make it easier to bootstrap a system. > > Not depending on libz doesn't make it any easier to bootstrap a system, > you already get all the complexity just by needing libc. (Either by > requiring you to unpack the libs without dpkg first somehow, or by > requiring you to have appropriate libraries in the host system) > > Cheers, > aj, debootstrap author
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