reopen 551029 quit >From: Manoj Srivastava <[email protected]> > This is not abug. awk is a virtually essential package, so no > package needs to depend on it. (hint: dpkg will not work unless there > is a awk on the disk).
While it may be rather uncommon to run across systems that do not have `awk` of some flavor installed, such do occur. The number of packages that explicitly depend on awk tends to suggest that it is not yet officially required to be installed (though I doubt ucf is the only thing that breaks if it is absent). `dpkg` sure seemed to work fine without `awk`, otherwise I imagine this system would have been in trouble when I ran `dpkg --install gawk_...`. Unless/Until Debian officially requires some flavor of awk to be installed, ucf needs it as a dependancy. Otherwise, as I discovered `apt` will happily remove the installed flavor of awk, install ucf and other packages before getting around to installing a different flavor of awk (problematically, if several of those use ucf they can prevent apt from continuing on to installing other packages, such as awk). -- (\___(\___(\______ --=> 8-) EHM <=-- ______/)___/)___/) \BS ( | [email protected] PGP F6B23DE0 | ) / \_CS\ | _____ -O #include <stddisclaimer.h> O- _____ | / _/ 2477\___\_|_/DC21 03A0 5D61 985B <-PGP-> F2BE 6526 ABD2 F6B2\_|_/___/3DE0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
