Hi,
>>"Bill" == Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Bill> That's pretty messy, however. Perhaps, since other packages may
Bill> presume the presence of the undocumented(7) man page without declaring
Bill> a dependency on the manpages package, the undocumented(7) manpage should
Bill> be provided by some package having a priority of Required instead of by
Bill> the manpages package with a priority of Important.
Umm. I think I disagree. If you do not have packages labeled
important, you may well be missing ``important'' functionality on
your machine. Having something say "no such manpage" is a quite
reasonable response.
Not every bit of functionality should be shoehorned into
"required" packages, since then the distinctions loose their
meaning. The system does not get totally broken without the missing
manpage.
As the policy manual says, the `important' packages are just a
bare minimum of commonly-expected and necessary tools. These are
packages without which the system will not run well or be useable
(also from the policy manual).
manoj
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