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Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes



On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, Anthony Towns wrote:

> How about coming up with something better then?

The mechanism APT uses is that Essential packages implicitly make their
dependencies also Essential for installation order - this means things
like libc6 are unpacked and configured immediately.

IHMO this is reasonable.

Jason


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