Bug#235525: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Relax priority relations between packages (Policy 2.5)
On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:20:37PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
> No it's not, because those libraries don't need to be removed when
> new libraries are installed. That's not the case with exim4-config,
> apparently. (And if it is the case, we can handle it exactly as we handle
> libraries, with no policy change required)
It is the case, exim4-config - once installed - does no harm besides
eating some disk space without really being needed. And the way we
handle libraries is indeed broken as well, because we require them to
be manually uninstalled. If they could be priority optional, aptitude
could automagically remove them with the packages that need them.
Greetings
Marc
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