On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 04:31:37PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > For the reasons Matthias and I have outlined, I think the current rules > are both unnecessary and harmful. Automating an unnecessary and harmful > thing does not make it any more necessary, or less harmful.
My proposal would be to add a paragraph in policy which explictly states that all libraries are optional by default. However, I don't see what do we gain by making libc6 optional. I see that as a too much radical change. Would be very difficult to automate that an essential[*] package depending on another package (library or not) makes the other package automatically required? Would that be harmful? (I fail to see how it could be harmful). [*] Only essential packages, not virtually essential packages like awk or pseudo-essential packages like the alternate dependencies of "init". Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20141117153932.ga20...@cantor.unex.es
