On 12/24/19 1:03 AM, Helmut Grohne wrote: > Hi, > > I want make fdisk removable from an essential base system. The details > are listed in #947134. Since fdisk currently is pseudo-essential, > packages do not need to declare a dependency on it. When fdisk becomes > non-essential, such dependencies become required. A lot of packages that > use fdisk have since added the relevant dependency (see `apt rdepends > fdisk`). To fix the remaining packages, I intend to perform a mass bug > filing. > > I intend to use the following text as a mail template. > [...]
Thanks for this useful work. Everything which can make the minimal base install smaller is a good thing. Do you already have a list of affected package? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
