On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > 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.
If you read my previous message, you will notice I am well aware of that, but the fact is that libc6 is essential-de-facto, unlike mbr, procps, passwd, makedev and modutils, which are truly required-and-not-essential.
