Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm including the context diff between essential packages and required >> ones. Since essential implies required, why isn't there simply another >> priority class, instead of a separate "Essential" field?? > [...] > mawk isn't essential because awk has alternatives and mawk is just the > default choice. Someone may want to install gawk and remove mawk, which > should continue to work. sysv-rc and initscripts similarly, as I recall, > have possible alternatives or at least might.
You don't need an init system in a chroot, > dselect probably shouldn't be required any more. > > debconf implements a protocol, and another implementation of the same > protocol should be allowed. cdebconf is in progress, in fact. and you also don't need debconf in a chroot (unless you install a package that uses it, of course). > That leaves the following as the only differences that I don't know the > story behind off-hand: > >> +gcc-4.0-base >> +lsb-base >> +makedev >> +passwd >> +procps The last three aren't needed in a chroot (although I usually add users in static chroots, and thus want passwd). Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
