On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:04:53AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > awk is provided by mawk which is not essential. > Santiago Vila has said a number of times in the past that awk is a > virtual essential package: you have to have one implementation of it, > even though neither is itself essential, and packages are allowed to > assume its existence. Then you have to assume that the essential rules applies on this package also, have to work without being configured. This is only possible if you use mawk instead of the awk alternative which is built while configuring. Bastian -- Intuition, however illogical, is recognized as a command prerogative. -- Kirk, "Obsession", stardate 3620.7
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