Recai Oktas wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > awk is "virtually essential": it can't be Essential: yes because > > that would prevent removing mawk in favor of gawk, but awk is a > > dependency of another essential package to ensure that you can use > > basic awk functionality without having to depend on it. > > Just to make things a little clearer, the above is the excerpt from the > changelog of 'base-files' (an essential package): > * Added "Depends: awk", so that awk is a "virtual essential package". A good explanation. That clears up my confusion. I was pretty sure it was something like that but just could not find it. Thanks! Bob
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