Hi,
>>"Guy" == Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Guy> Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> [If this discussion is restricted to essential packages, please
>> ignore this message. I am quite confused now]
Guy> Yes, we're just talking about essential packages. I agree with
Guy> Santiago that all essential packages should be using Pre-Depends.
After thinking about it, I think so too.
Guy> After generating this list, I was surprised at how small it was.
Guy> Required and Essential: (27) base-files base-passwd bash bsdutils
Guy> debianutils diff dpkg e2fsprogs fileutils findutils grep gzip
Guy> hostname ldso login mount ncurses-base ncurses-bin perl-base
Guy> procps sed shellutils sysvinit tar textutils update util-linux
Why is procps in the former list, and not in the latter?
Guy> Required, but not Essential: (20) adduser ae comerr2g e2fslibsg
Guy> kbd ld.so libc6 libreadlineg2 makedev mawk mbr modconf modutils
Guy> ncurses3.4 passwd setserial shadow sysklogd syslinux timezones
manoj
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