On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:33:34PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > > Its not -required- that any of the software on a machine be packaged. > Users can (gasp) build and run their own $software - e.g. squid, apache, > whatever. > > But - we cannot expect the packaging system to ensure that requirements > are met for *any* unpackaged software. > > I think its a fair and proper assumption that the stack of software is > all packaged: its very easy to build a packaged, vanilla kernel - and > doing so can generate appropriate information for dpkg. > Yes. But enough people build non-packaged kernels that it is not really fair to exclude them. Add to that the fact that the presence of a particular kernel image package in no way guarantees that it is that particular kernel that is running, and you it is plain that it is not necessary to depend on a particular kernel. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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