Re: Bug#64460: whois package shouldn't be Priority: important, rather optional
On 22-May-00, 15:06 (CDT), Mike Bilow <mikebw@colossus.bilow.com> wrote:
> I think some common sense is necessary here. To me, "required" means that
> the system does not run or is severely compromised in terms of usefulness.
> I consider things like getty, login, or the shell "required."
>
> Very few things are actually listed as "important." Mostly this is the
> man pages and their related utilities, cron, and the mailx reader. I'm
> not sure whether exim should be "important," but that's another issue. It
> does seem to me that a lot of things which are listed as "required" should
> probably be "important," but in practice most users will need them all.
I think there are a lot of things in required not for the user but for
other packages maintainer scripts. Bsdmainutils is probably in important
because one (or more) of the utilities it supplies is needed by cron or
man or something. Yes, bsdmainutils could be split, but it's not really
worth the effort.
Steve
Reply to: