Bill Mitchell writes ("Re: ncurses build options..."):
> Should all packages which use common unix commands provided
> by essential digest packages such as cat (textutls), echo
> (shellutls), mkfs (miscutls) declare explicit dependencies on
> the digest packages they need,No. > or is the fact that the digest > packages are essential sufficient to omit explicit declaration > of dependencies on them? Yes. > If essential packages depend on shared libs, should those > essential packages declare dependencies on nonessential shared > libs? Yes. > Should essential packages be dependent on nonessential > shared libs? There is no problem with this. Ian.
