On 2010-03-14 20:34 +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:25:08 -0700 > Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: >> > Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just >> > removes the tag from any and every package automatically. No ill effects >> > have been identified so far. Sometimes I wonder if Debian actually >> > needs Essential any more for anything particularly useful or >> > commonplace. >> >> Then you clearly don't understand the purpose of Essential. > > I understand the theory, I've just never seen the practical purpose of > the current mechanism. Yes, it shortens Depends: lines but if the > dependencies are not listed and the Essential tag is omitted, what > actually goes wrong?
The user removes the package and breaks their system. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bpeq3cid....@turtle.gmx.de
