Hi,
>>"Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christian> On 18 Feb 1998, James Troup wrote:
Christian> [extremly essential vs. essential]
Christian> I fully agree to what James said. So I think it would be
Christian> good to check out all "Essential" packages in which
Christian> category they fall.
Umm, are we sure that the weaker essential package really are
essential? Does anyone remember the reason why? Can we document the
reasons then?
Christian> Note, that from the package system's view, there shouldn't
Christian> be a difference between these two categories--it's the
Christian> maintainers who need to know which one a package is--in
Christian> order to set up Depends or Pre-Depends.
Why not demote the latter set of packages to required?
Christian> There was a suggestion on debian-devel about creating and
Christian> maintaining a list of essential packages that explains the
Christian> reasons why a specific package is marked essential. This
Christian> list should also contain information about whether a
Christian> package is `extremly essential' or just `essential.'
Christian> What do you think?
Maybe "just essential" is a synonym for required?
Oh, I agree we should have such a list, seeing that I made the
proposal. ;-)
manoj
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