Re: Slight example about Essential packages
From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
> You will note that even though the policy manual says dependanices are not
> needed it does -NOT- say they are implicitly present (the point of my
> post). The subtle difference is that implicitly present depends will mean
> essential packages will try to be configured first.
Essential packages have already been configured before the first time Deity
runs on a system. That is the point of the "base archive". Forget about
putting together a system by installing packages on an empty disk, it doesn't
work and is not likely to work soon.
Just when essential packages configure themselves during an _upgrade_ is less
important.
Bruce
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