On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 08:32:18PM -0400, Chris Pimlott wrote: > > There's still problems with using pre-depends to make sure bzip2 > is installed. It's not exactly what pre-depends was intended for. It's > not going to be pretty if a user tries to remove bzip2 and dselect shoots > up the dependency/conflict screen and marks every single package that was > bzip2 compressed for removal. It's also specifically warned in the > packaging manual that pre-depends should be used sparingly, for a number > of reasons.
That's what "Essential: yes" is for. Ben
