On Sat, 2006-04-22 at 22:10 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote:
Mark Rosenstand <mark(a)borkware.net> wrote:
> The Debian tool assumes that its users are capable of brain activity.
Riiight...
Well actually Debian packages have the ability to flag themselves as
essential, thus preventing their removal without dire warnings of doom
and gloom.
i --\ bash 3.1-2
Description: The GNU Bourne Again SHell
Essential: yes
Priority: required
On the other hand:
i --\ grub 0.95+cvs20
Description: GRand Unified Bootloader
Priority: optional