On 14/03/2010 19:25, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 06:04:16PM +0000, Neil Williams wrote: >> Personally, I'm not that fussed about Essential anymore - Emdebian just >> removes the tag from any and every package automatically. No ill effects >> have been identified so far. Sometimes I wonder if Debian actually >> needs Essential any more for anything particularly useful or >> commonplace. > > Then you clearly don't understand the purpose of Essential. >
I have seen strange side-effects of Essential, especially when using multiple (pinned) sources (esp. stable+testing+unstable). Example is mktemp and diff which are (according to the tool I use for upgrade) regularly proposed for deinstallation and then proposed for reinstallation. Not that it is a big problem, tough. -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4b9f8f6b.2050...@free.fr
