At 11:48 +0100 1998-03-24, Santiago Vila wrote: >procps was essential in Debian 1.3.1, but it is not essential in hamm. >procps contains the important /bin/ps binary (which is certainly used in >maintainer scripts, either directly or indirectly through the init.d >scripts).
Which packages have maintainer scripts that use ps? (file bugs against packages that do without a dependency on procps). I have heard of killall being used in maintainer scripts, but killall is in 'psmisc' (and don't get any ideas ;P). "Indirectly through the init.d scripts"? If an init.d script is (as it should) using start-stop-daemon, then there is no usage of /bin/ps, "indirectly" or otherwise; start-stop-daemon uses /proc directly. 'procps' is clearly deserving of 'required' status, but it is not essential to the functioning of the packaging system. As James says, it is a bad idea to remove a required package, and such removal can hose things, provided there is still enough functionality to restore the system to proper working order. -- Joel "Espy" Klecker <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://web.espy.org/> Debian GNU/Linux Developer...................<http://www.debian.org/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
