On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Now, with these changes, it is reinstalling shellutils and textutils which I > have uninstalled because they're just psudo-packages in testing. But after > I let it be installed, and try to remove the packages, it thinks they're > required[3] for a working system (which they're not anymore in testing...) > just > like they were in stable.
Packages that have a mixture of essential/non-essential versions will act like this. It's normal and expected, people should really not be screwing around with essential packages like this. Jason

