On 17 Dec 1998, Ben Gertzfield wrote: > What do you guys think? Since apt is in base, should it pre-depend on > its libraries now? I definatly vote for the pre-depends (it doesn't hurt anything) > Should we mark apt as essential as well? It isn't quite that important (okay, I think apt is essential to me, but I can imagine someone who doesn't need it <grin>)