Dale Scheetz writes ("Re: New virtual package names. "): ... > Well, I'm pretty sure that Bill didn't just wake up one morning and say > "Wow! That essential field sure is neat! Let's put it in ae! My assumption > was that this was an attempt to keep ae in the system.
I think that Bill was under the mistaken impression that every base package should be marked essential. ... > No, I am concerned about programs that might use $EDITOR as the means to > providing an editor. [...] As has been pointed out, the dependency scheme doesn't help at all here. Ian.