Re: A Different Naive Question [Re: Naive newbie question]

[Octopus Octopus]

On 07/15/2018 10:48 PM, Octopus Octopus wrote:
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> On 07/15/2018 08:57 PM, John Crawley wrote:
>> On 2018-07-16 04:33, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> Can I a Debian user opt to not install "LSB" without ill effects?
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>> Some ...er, many Debian packages depend on lsb-base.
>> 'apt-cache rdepends lsb-base' for a long list.
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> as <o...@debian.org> states
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>     For all practical concerns, you should consider the LSB package orphaned 
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>     I should probably just go ahead and orphan it).
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> and if a lot of things depend on lsb-base, isn't that like, very very
> bad? Like 'a critical component of our system has been left completely
> unmaintained' bad?