Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Raul Miller wrote:
> > BTW: I hope this clarification about essential will help APT not to be so
> > paranoid by not configuring every essential package just after unpacking
> > them. If APT is changed in this way, I guess upgrades will be as smooth
> > and fast as they can really be (i.e. as fast as the old FTP method when
> > there are not predependency problems).
> That's a very good point. We should ask the apt folks about this before
> making this policy.
The only reason things are slow is due to dpkg being inflexable in how it
can be used :<
> I suspect that they were just working from the interface as it was
> specified (where the above paragraph wasn't part of policy), but maybe
> there's something else going on.
If this was added to policy and enforced properly I could see making the
essential configuration stuff optional.
Jason
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