On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:21:36AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > The pax package is optional. But as the pax utility is required by > POSIX[*], shouldn't this package be required? > > [*] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/pax.html > Why? RPM is also required by LSB and it is not "required" in Debian. There is nothing saying that your Debian install has to be POSIX compliant. Remember, people build embedded devices on Debian using alternative libc implementations and other such things. If you want POSIX compliance, you can install it.
Also, if you read up on the different priorities in Debian, you will see that optional is the correct priority for pax. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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