On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 06:52:08AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > Libraries can't be essential, because it would make it too hard to > remove them when their sonames change.
Understood...but I was actually asking why policy seems to say that a system lacking Priority: required packages could have a broken packaging system, which as far as I know should not be the case unless they are removed with --force-depends. -- - mdz