On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 08:03:27PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote: > An alternative would be for an existing Essential package such as > base-files to provide the Depends, which would save the need for > a separate base-init package. Is there any reason this would be > undesirable? (I note that it currently has no depends other than > a pre-depends on awk.)
I think it would be better to avoid adding dependencies to base-files if possible. base-files is one of the "super-Essential" packages with special-case handling in debootstrap to install it very early indeed, unpacked and configured while even dpkg has still only been extracted; while that installation is done with --force-depends, I still think it would be worth keeping its dependency tree as trivial as possible. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- 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/20120208235309.gf3...@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk
