On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:05:54AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sat, 2 Aug 2003, Herbert Xu wrote: > > A single pre-dependency is not enough. You will need to convert all > > of adduser's dependencies into pre-dependencies, and probably most > > of the things it depends on as well. > > No. adduser can still use normal depends. Pre-depends just means the > dep'd on package has to be configured. And depends are for this > exactly. > > You're confusing pre-depends and essentialness.
I thought the same at first, but according to policy, pre-depends also allows the depended-upon package to be merely unpacked or half-configured provided that it has been fully configured at some point in the past. Is this not correct? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
