On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Santiago Vila wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > On 14 Jun 1998, Guy Maor wrote: > > > passwd is required and that is enough. You can assume that all > > required packages are always on the system. > > I disagree. Since you are able to remove a required-but-non-essential > package and dpkg does not complain, required-but-non-essential packages > are not guaranteed to be always on the system.
Yes, I think you are right. > > So it's fine if the preinst just calls useradd without any checks or > > predependencies. > > I thought that only the essential flag allows a Dependency or > Predependency to be missing. Is this a bug in the policy manual? It might be a bug in Guy's interpretation of the policy manual. :-) Remco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]