On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 10:37:58AM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > It's really ok at all that a preinst depends on debconf? > > It's mentioned in debconf-devel(8), so ...
I meant "depends" as in "fails horribly and not gracefully when debconf is not installed". > > AFAIK, most packages which use debconf work ok when debconf is not > > installed. > > This one does '. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule' (as do most of them, in > fact). Unless I miss my guess, that'll return an error when debconf is > not installed. In such case I don't see the need for a Pre-Depends. > Relatively few packages bother to adjust their behaviour depending on > whether debconf is or isn't installed these days. Well, those who blindly assume debconf is installed without using a depends are buggy and should be fixed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]