Re: On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 05:11:08PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > > > If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those other > > packages be tagged Essential as well? > > > > Currently, gzip (Essential) depends on debianutils (non-Esse

Re: On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 6 Mar 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those other > packages be tagged Essential as well? > > Currently, gzip (Essential) depends on debianutils (non-Essential). debianutils 1.7 is essential.

Re: On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Fri, Mar 06, 1998 at 02:27:10PM +, James Troup wrote: > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those > > other packages be tagged Essential as well? > > Certainly *not*, when the other packages are libraries. You are

Re: On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread James Troup
Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those > other packages be tagged Essential as well? Certainly *not*, when the other packages are libraries. [I won't give my opinion when the other packages are not libraries on the grounds

On essential packages and dependencies

1998-03-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
If an Essential package depends on other packages, shouldn't those other packages be tagged Essential as well? Currently, gzip (Essential) depends on debianutils (non-Essential). -- Enrique Zanardi[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experiment