Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk <at> debian.org> writes: > > The situation here is analoguous to the question whether an X > installation should depend on fonts: such a dependency would document > the dependency on inherent in X, yet we don't do that, because there are > reasonable setups of X where the fonts are provided outside the > packaging system's knowledge.
Ok, it seems I had a much stricter idea of what should be under the control of the package management system than is accepted practice in debian. I am now realizing that kernel packages are not the only thing that need not register with dpkg. Thanks for the clarification. Martin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]