On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:05:54AM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > > > You also need to ensure that adduser and anything that it depends on to > > function are always available at all times just like libc6. > > You're confusing pre-depends and essentialness.
What about the case if adduser needs a new feature in useradd and thus uses a versioned dependency on passwd. This means that the new adduser can be unpacked before the new passwd is unpacked or configured since it's only a plain old dependency. As an unversioned pre-dependency is fulfilled as long as a package was previously configured, this will allow packages declaring pre-dependencies on adduser to run their preinsts even though the new passwd is not yet available, rendering adduser useless. -- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
