On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > /usr/bin/perl shall thus belong to an essential package. > > can you replace essential packages with non essential ones ? > i'm not sure, at least removing essential is not possible without a > force option. Perl will suppliment perl-base, not replace it (if I've gotten this correct). That means that perl will no longer contain /usr/bin/perl, but it will depend on perl-base which provides it.