Re: Ping as normal user (Was: Why /usr/sbin is not in my root $PATH ?)

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2019-05-30, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 01:00:19PM -0000, Curt wrote:
>> On 2019-05-30, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
>> > But libcap2-bin is priority important in both stretch and buster.
>> 
>> Why is my Stretch apt-cache command telling me it's priority optional?
>> Or am I once again missing some essential thing?
>
> Uh...
>
> arc3:~$ dpkg -s libcap2-bin | grep -i priority
> Priority: important
> arc3:~$ apt-cache show libcap2-bin | grep -i priority
> Priority: optional
>
> OK, I have no freaking idea what this means.
>
>

curty@einstein:~$ dpkg -s libcap2-bin | grep -i priority
Priority: optional

At least I'm optionally consistent.

;-)

-- 
“Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos
of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.” – Thomas Pynchon