On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 10:08:09AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: > Yann Dirson wrote: > > Joey suggested: > > > > Here is one way we could reword policy: > > > > | 2.3.6. The base system > > ---------------------- > > | > > | The base system is a minimum subset of the Debian GNU/Linux system that > > is > > installed before everything else on a new system. Thus, only very few > > | packages are allowed to go into the base system to keep the > > | required disk usage very small. > > > > Most of these packages should have the priority value `required' or at > > least `important', and many of them will be tagged `essential' (see > > below). > > > > You must not place any packages into the `base' section before this has > > been discussed on the `debian-devel' mailing list and a consensus about > > doing that has been reached. > > > > > > Why not getting rid of the 3rd paragraph altogether ? It becomes > > obsolete if the "base" section is to be removed. > > I agree with Yann's suggestion. Joey, are you agreeable to this > change; Yann, are you seconding this proposal? If so, it'll go in a > soon-to-be-released policy version.
I still have to re-read the policy process, but, at least informally, I second this. -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.alcove.com/ Free-Software Engineer Ingénieur Logiciel Libre Free-Software time Coordinator Responsable du temps Informatique Libre
