Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>"Bill" == Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bill> That's pretty messy, however. Perhaps, since other packages > Bill> may presume the presence of the undocumented(7) man page > Bill> without declaring a dependency on the manpages package, the > Bill> undocumented(7) manpage should be provided by some package > Bill> having a priority of Required instead of by the manpages > Bill> package with a priority of Important.
> Umm. I think I disagree. If you do not have packages labeled > important, you may well be missing ``important'' functionality on > your machine. Having something say "no such manpage" is a quite > reasonable response. > > Not every bit of functionality should be shoehorned into > "required" packages, since then the distinctions loose their > meaning. The system does not get totally broken without the missing > manpage. As (well, almost) always, Manoj, you are the voice of reason. I agree. -- .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
