On Mon, 17 Jun 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: > > ncurses-base > > ncurses-bin > Are these just to support dselect, should dselect be essential ?
dselect/dpkg in 1.10 have been split. dpkg 1.10 predepends on dselect 1.10, to support upgrades. > > e2fsprogs > not essential for people who dont have an ext2 (or 3?) filesystem Interesting point, now that xfs/rieserfs are seeing more and more usage. > > perl-base > just because :) I have plans to remove perl dependencies from dpkg(rewriting in c). Wichert has plans to convert dpkg-dev to python(this won't affect the embedded devices, as they aren't developement systems). > > diff > diff comes in handy, but why is it essential ? Because dpkg uses it to handle conffile changes. > > bash > A shell is essential, but why cant ash be used instead of bash, maybe it > should be a virtual package. Because certain maintainer scripts use bash directly, instead of ash. I suppose that would could disallow that for embedded devices, but it could cause problems. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
