# which packages are essential affects the entire distribution reassign 619820 general quit
Hi, Harald Dunkel wrote: > I cannot remove dash nor bash. Both are marked as essential packages. > One shell should be enough for a minimal system. That's a good point. Raphael, do you remember why dash is essential? Once we have a good mechanism for safely switching between arbitrary policy-compliant shells (Bug#540512), would it be possible to make "sh" essential instead? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
