Bug#177952: Not a bug

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

severity 177952 wishlist
retitle 177952 No way to suppress installation of essential packages
tags 177952 wontfix
thanks

After thinking on it, I'm inclined to believe that this is not a bug.  If
you have a source in sources.list, and it contains some Essential packages
that you do not have installed, other packages from the same source could
have undeclared dependencies on them, so they must be installed.

This is a feature request for a way to suppress the installation of
Essential packages, which I do not think is a particularly good idea.

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 - mdz