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On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > Because common-licenses is required by basesystem. It should always be > > on your system, so there is really no need to list it. > > Well, if I remove basesystem (which is required by nothing), I could > also easily remove common-licenses if every packager would follow your > rule. This would cause that the user would have no copy of the GPL on > his system. However, if every package requires common-licenses, this > cannot happen (excluding cases where the user --nodeps a package > removal). I think it'll be fine if glibc requires basesystem. One would argue that non-glibc dependent software would have no dependency against common-licenses, but that's quite sufficient for today, since more than 99% of software needs glibc, right? Abel
