On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 01:43:31 +0200 (CEST), Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > gzip, for example, is essential and depends on libc6. By policy, libc6 > should not be essential because it's a library. No matter how few packages > you have installed, you would need a --force option to remove libc6 anyway. > So I would say libc6 is not a good example in either case, regardless > of the number of packages installed. If libc7 is released and if everything that depends on some C library is upgraded, you don't want to keep libc6 forever. That is why libc6 should not be marked as essential.
-- Oohara Yuuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer PGP key (key ID F464A695) http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/pub-key.txt Key fingerprint = 6142 8D07 9C5B 159B C170 1F4A 40D6 F42E F464 A695 Er, let's get into all the messes of the parliament. --- shinichiro.h, diary 2003/3/24 "parliamentary bullet-dodging system"
