Re: Suggestion to and how to alow different compression for .debs
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 08:32:18PM -0400, Chris Pimlott wrote:
>
> There's still problems with using pre-depends to make sure bzip2
> is installed. It's not exactly what pre-depends was intended for. It's
> not going to be pretty if a user tries to remove bzip2 and dselect shoots
> up the dependency/conflict screen and marks every single package that was
> bzip2 compressed for removal. It's also specifically warned in the
> packaging manual that pre-depends should be used sparingly, for a number
> of reasons.
That's what "Essential: yes" is for.
Ben
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