Re: Quick dependency question / Looking for a sponsor: everything/maim/libmail-sender-perl

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 09:30:06AM -0700, Jay Bonci wrote:
>       I have a quick question for the experienced packager. For the hell of 
> it,
> in the Everything engine package, I wrote a maintainer script (my postinst)
> using bash and some sed to do intelligent default guessing and general
> parsing/escaping.  Now sed is in the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
> (http://www.pathname.com/fhs/), and bash is not. Do I have to explicitly
> declare everything as being dependant on one or both of them, or do they get
> installed by default?  What can you expect for that?

Blackbird:~# dpkg -s bash | grep Essential
Essential: yes
Blackbird:~# dpkg -s sed | grep Essential
Essential: yes

They're both essential and therefore you can rely that they are around.

Michael


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