On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 05:38:50PM +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > > We have: > > required/essential -- stuff that can't be removed: libc, dpkg, etc > > important -- the rest of base, stuff necessary to bootstrap and > > recover a usable and useful system > I have to admit that I don't see why we can't merge those two. At the > moment, these packages are in required without being marked as > essential: > debconf For debootstrap, any package (that can be) pre-depended upon by an important package must be required. > debconf-i18n dselect e2fslibs gcc-4.2-base initscripts libacl1 > libattr1 libblkid1 libc6 libcap1 libcomerr2 libdb4.3 libdevmapper1.02.1 > libgcc1 liblocale-gettext-perl libncurses5 libpam-modules libpam-runtime > libpam0g libselinux1 libsepol1 libslang2 libss2 libstdc++6 > libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl libuuid1 > lsb-base makedev mawk passwd procps sysv-rc tzdata zlib1g > I don't see what makes those required-but-not-important or why the > packages in important aren't required. Those are all depended on by essential packages... Cheers, aj
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