On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Anthony Towns wrote: > You can kind-of enforce it. ``Hey, this package does stuff in its postinst, > get rid of the Essential tag, now.'' This is enforcable since it's already > the case, and what we've got so far works.
I agree, essential packages by definition cannot stop working or the whole system has the potential to fail. It is just not acceptable for an essential package to ever have a state where it can not provide its essential functions. That means bash must always have working sh, perl must always have a working perl, etc. This doesn't seem to be a problem except that people seem to want to create complex packaging without any regard to how critical the program is! Jason
