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Bug#809204: busybox is required but not installed



>>>>> "BH" == Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> writes:
>> OK, but you are still going to run into problems if the user has set
>> 
>> # apt-config dump|egrep Rec\|Sugg
>> APT::Install-Recommends "false";
>> APT::Install-Suggests "0";

BH> Users that do that need to accept that they will encounter errors like
BH> this.

OK, but I am sure yours is the very first package to "lower the
barrier" of
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps
in that way.

In the past an entire working Debian could be completely installed counting on only
Depends.

Or maybe
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps
needs to have some additional explanation about special cases like this?


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