On 2009-07-22 18:06 +0200, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
> mawk is alway installed (required and a dependency of an essential package).
Wrong, you can easily remove mawk if you like, as long as you have
another package that provides awk:
,
| % LANG=C aptitude -s remove mawk
| Reading package l
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> awk is essential. Specific awk implementations are not, but the
>> interface is essential. This is something that we've discussed many
>> times over the years and I'm absolutely certain that statement is
>> correct.
> awk is a virtual pac
Russ Allbery wrote:
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes:
Russ Allbery wrote:
libc is essential from a Policy perspective. It's just not marked that
way in the packaging system in case the SONAME changes, but it's
essential in the same way that awk is. Note that dependencies on awk
are not requir
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> libc is essential from a Policy perspective. It's just not marked that
>> way in the packaging system in case the SONAME changes, but it's
>> essential in the same way that awk is. Note that dependencies on awk
>> are not required (and ind
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