On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Bill Mitchell wrote: > As of debian 2.0, mawk and sed are `required' packages, so they should be > present on any debian system.
Only the essential flag (or the base-files trick) guarantees a package to be present in the system and allows a package not to have an explicit dependency on it. awk (virtual) is essential because base-files depends on it. sed is essential. > ed and nvi (which supplies ex) are `important'. As of debian 2.0, > they aren't declared to be `essential', so they may not be present. Yes, my mistake. ed is not essential. -- "ed57d4d10a26038830a9a46992e95c54" (a truly random sig)