Bug#954794: New packages must not declare themselves Essential

2020-09-29 Thread jrnieder
Hi, Josh Triplett wrote: > Over the years, "Essential" has made it difficult to reduce installation > size, to reduce chroot/container size, or to coordinate various > transitions. Removing something from the Essential set requires tracking > down every package using it, adding a dependency, care

Bug#954794: New packages must not declare themselves Essential

2020-09-29 Thread Josh Triplett
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 05:15:45PM +0200, Javier Serrano Polo wrote: > On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 08:00:04 -0700 Josh Triplett > wrote: > > This change does not propose eliminating the concept of Essential, > > What is the point of Essential? To omit declaring dependencies on the > false assumption that