-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 23 Mar 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> This is easy enough to discover. Twenty packages. (mbr procps > adduser setserial passwd ncurses3.4 e2fslibsgcomerr2g libc6 makedev > modconf syslinuxkbd ss2g ae modutils timezones libreadlineg2 mawk > sysklogd). Yes, this is a list of required packages which are not essential. However, I can't see that removing any of them without using any dpkg --force option may cause the system to be in a "completely FUBAR state" (in James' words). - From the list, I can see just one exception: procps procps was essential in Debian 1.3.1, but it is not essential in hamm. procps contains the important /bin/ps binary (which is certainly used in maintainer scripts, either directly or indirectly through the init.d scripts). Is there a reason why this package lost his essential flag? If nobody objects, I will report this as a bug, and will ask the maintainer to use a Pre-Depends field for libc6 (which is the only library outside the proper package against which /bin/ps is linked). -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNRePcSqK7IlOjMLFAQEFCQP7BEh8fvh3+I7VxikPHrhJe2o9DP37zmrK pHiZ9R9aXkzHJksDihtKijTJ8OC0P/DKc4gecPx4l2PKe8IFYmhnICXgwtJTUysh YaZA0KzOpXT0Wx3zWYHde4yZpJCZk9BLH5tM5tT1g2J0FtrvREpYk7nVWCH9cNlq ml16DKmdZWs= =aumY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
