Re: Bug#203650: Poor recommendation in dpkg-statoverride section
On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 09:59:13 +1000, Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> said:
> Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Objection. There is no way to create any user in preinst as the
>>> tool to do so is not in an essential package.
>>
>> This is what pre-depends are for.
> A single pre-dependency is not enough. You will need to convert all
> of adduser's dependencies into pre-dependencies, and probably most
> of the things it depends on as well.
Do you really need that? Shouldn't a pre-depends kinda
guarantee that the rpedepended package is installed and configured?
If the package is installed and configured, all the uspstream
dependencies should already be taken care of, no?
manoj
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