Michael Banck <mba...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 02:18:53PM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 19:22 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
>>> I believe this is a misunderstanding. The quoted section do not mean >>> that all files in a essential package need to be on the root >>> partition, but that the package should always be installed. >> Well but what's the benefit then at all? If it's not guaranteed to be >> there...?! > AIUI, it's guaranteed to be there after system startup. Right, the point is that other packages can assume those binaries are available during any normal package operations and during package installation and removal. Early system startup (before $remote_fs) is a weird and special environment, and most services should just depend on $remote_fs and not worry about it. Normally they have to anyway since the daemon being started is in /usr. Services that do not depend on $remote_fs are services that have to be prepared to run in a limited and special environment and will require special attention and thought. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zkxsu04m....@windlord.stanford.edu