[NEW IDEA] Automatic removal of dependencies
Callum Lerwick
seg at haxxed.com
Mon Apr 24 20:53:25 UTC 2006
On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 22:10 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
> Mark Rosenstand <mark at borkware.net> wrote:
> > The Debian tool assumes that its users are capable of brain activity.
>
> Riiight...
Well actually Debian packages have the ability to flag themselves as
essential, thus preventing their removal without dire warnings of doom
and gloom.
i --\ bash 3.1-2
Description: The GNU Bourne Again SHell
Essential: yes
Priority: required
On the other hand:
i --\ grub 0.95+cvs20
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Priority: optional
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