On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:03:27AM -0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > The base package doesn't exist any more for quite a long time, those first > time Debian user are most of them quite good and knows what to do to > correct this problem. Furthermore for those who can't, they simply have > to not remove the base package (which is guaranteed by its essential > flag)... this bug deserves no more to be open.
I think we are closing bugs for the sake of it here. Any reason why the suggestion can't be implemented? (ie make base-files.postinst truncate base.list). OK it's not a very nice solution but there isn't a better one. I personally have nuked the base package and lost all my devices this way. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
