Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes

1999-12-12 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:20:03AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > I'm a lot more sympathetic to this objection than I am to AT's, > though. Fixing all the dselect methods would certainly be a Good > Thing. :-) That is an easy one. Come up with a way to get rid of all the dselect methods expect for

Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes

1999-12-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 01:08:41AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > Anthony Towns writes: > > And, gee, shock horror, I'll say the exact same thing I said last time > > you mentioned this, and that is that it's much more alike things that > > -policy discusses that things the packaging-manual discusse

Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes

1999-12-12 Thread Chris Waters
Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:32:08AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > > The downside is, of course, that dpkg isn't very good at ordering > > things, but again, that's a flaw in dpkg, and I think we'd be better > > off trying to address that, not just for e

Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes

1999-12-12 Thread Chris Waters
Anthony Towns writes: > And, gee, shock horror, I'll say the exact same thing I said last time > you mentioned this, and that is that it's much more alike things that > -policy discusses that things the packaging-manual discusses. Yes, I remember. I thought you were suggesting that we move both

Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes

1999-12-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 12 Dec 1999, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:32:08AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > > The downside is, of course, that dpkg isn't very good at ordering > > things, but again, that's a flaw in dpkg, and I think we'd be better > > off trying to address that, not just for es

Re: Bug#50832: AMENDMENT] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes

1999-12-12 Thread Anthony Towns
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 12:32:08AM -0800, Chris Waters wrote: > But ok, if you don't like that, then I'll go back to what I said the > first time this came up: this belongs in the packaging manual, not > policy. And, gee, shock horror, I'll say the exact same thing I said last time you mentioned t