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Re: [epg@progeny.com: Bug#154142: dhcp-client conflicts]



On Sat, Jul 27, 2002 at 09:20:03PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> It seems pointless given that you can't actually depend on the package
> and expect it to do anything in particular - the package seems to serve
> no purpose.  I mean, as far as I can tell a package providing access to
> raw sockets would fulfil the role ("It does DHCP if you use the right
> commands!").  Perhaps I just don't understand what this package is
> intended to achieve?

These appear to be equally valid arguments against all other virtual
packages in Debian.

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |     There's nothing an agnostic can't
Debian GNU/Linux                   |     do if he doesn't know whether he
branden@debian.org                 |     believes in it or not.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |     -- Graham Chapman

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