"Bernhard R. Link" <brl...@debian.org> writes:
> My proposal is still:
>
> - Add a new priority "essential" for the "must always be available"
> (so this is what in a bootstrap is unpackaged manually).
> Require that Priority essential packages only depend on Priority
> essential, so this is the new transitively-essential set.
> - Reduce "Essential: yes" with "Priority: required" to mean only
> that cannot be removed easily. So things like mount or initscripts
> must not be unpacked twice and available in every buildd chroot.
> - Reduce the set of "does not need depended on" to "Essential: yes"
> and "Priority: essential".
>
> Bernhard R. Link
Don't forget about awk. Awk is quasi-essential but it can come from gawk
or mawk.
MfG
Goswin
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