On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > > BTW: I hope this clarification about essential will help APT not to be so > > paranoid by not configuring every essential package just after unpacking > > them. If APT is changed in this way, I guess upgrades will be as smooth > > and fast as they can really be (i.e. as fast as the old FTP method when > > there are not predependency problems). > That's a very good point. We should ask the apt folks about this before > making this policy.
The only reason things are slow is due to dpkg being inflexable in how it can be used :< > I suspect that they were just working from the interface as it was > specified (where the above paragraph wasn't part of policy), but maybe > there's something else going on. If this was added to policy and enforced properly I could see making the essential configuration stuff optional. Jason
