Re: need input: essential packages and pre-depends
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On 23 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> This is easy enough to discover. Twenty packages. (mbr procps
> adduser setserial passwd ncurses3.4 e2fslibsgcomerr2g libc6 makedev
> modconf syslinuxkbd ss2g ae modutils timezones libreadlineg2 mawk
> sysklogd).
Yes, this is a list of required packages which are not essential.
However, I can't see that removing any of them without using any
dpkg --force option may cause the system to be in a "completely FUBAR
state" (in James' words).
- From the list, I can see just one exception: procps
procps was essential in Debian 1.3.1, but it is not essential in hamm.
procps contains the important /bin/ps binary (which is certainly used in
maintainer scripts, either directly or indirectly through the init.d
scripts).
Is there a reason why this package lost his essential flag?
If nobody objects, I will report this as a bug, and will ask the
maintainer to use a Pre-Depends field for libc6 (which is the only
library outside the proper package against which /bin/ps is linked).
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