-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Vincent Renardias, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: >On 21 May 1997, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: >> 1. Split the main executable and a small set of base files into >> perl-base. This would be Priority: required, should it be Essential? >> There will still be a main Perl package but it would supplement >> perl-base instead of replacing it.[1] > >I think perl-base should not be Essential, since it will be replaced >anyway once the installation completes. "perl" should be essential though. >(Or can "essential" packages be replaced by dpkg?)
Please read what I wrote again. perl-base will only ever be upgraded, never replaced. Perl will include all the files needed to turn perl-base into a full distribution. >Not only we already have package names much more ugly than >"perl5.004-base", but I think it may be too bad to miss the opportunity >to solve in advance the "very rare" cases when 2 versions of perl must be >installed. But those package names aren't packages that I maintain. If a situation is very rare, then it's not something that needs to be handled in general if you have to introduce breakage or inelegance to fix it. Darren - -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.daft.com/~torin> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Darren Stalder/2608 Second Ave, @282/Seattle, WA 98121-1212/USA/+1-800-921-4996 @ Do you have your clothes on? I probably don't. Take yours off. Feel better. @ @ Sysadmin, webweaver, postmaster for hire. C/Perl/CGI programmer and tutor. @ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3 Charset: noconv Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.4, an Emacs/PGP interface iQCVAwUBM4SG0I4wrq++1Ls5AQE3SQP/Sls5FQUKK/1a5Mo9/IVu+kh//dV/yO4p mEXF15QSo89zbdmIqo9KD0oh3GweRmKkOBWlk/PQSv7fLswvJs/h024myQ2VpegO APi01ElfGdMbzt7Yr6GMNy6RA0pdynM3B04mAtvD7SAQqwqnbBpvq6NyjVIQPG2x 41afayfy03w= =PsjJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .