-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On 14 Jun 1998, Guy Maor wrote:
> passwd is required and that is enough. You can assume that all > required packages are always on the system. I disagree. Since you are able to remove a required-but-non-essential package and dpkg does not complain, required-but-non-essential packages are not guaranteed to be always on the system. > So it's fine if the preinst just calls useradd without any checks or > predependencies. I thought that only the essential flag allows a Dependency or Predependency to be missing. Is this a bug in the policy manual? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNYTnzSqK7IlOjMLFAQFgYwQAjc0kNIf+fSFe7LZ1A9UWk0TXbHqKTSq0 H2c9tvG1C7vZ6VMIviSQN796L005lNCYaWXEyA0oMGKHNx4T5gTErkse+44NRMfa QRYPIf95/dRcZV589GP2hh0q+iPQROk9f6bmQ6FFDwXkax4/kO5z1fHxh9hFMfoe h0fKtm51W90= =S1g0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
