On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Adrian Bunk wrote: > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > dpkg sysvinit (due to dpkg) util-linux (due to sysvinit) slang1 (due to > util-linux) > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 164 to remove and 6 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 311MB will be freed. > You are about to do something potentially harmful > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as I say!' > ?] > It isn't true that slang1 gets removed due to the removal of util-linux, > but util-linux gets removed due to the removal of slang1 instead.
Whic is not what the warning is saying, it is saying slang1 is 'essential' due to a dependency from util-linux. Jason
