Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Robert Schiele <rschiele@xxxxxxxxx> [Jan 19. 2007 12:36]:

[...]
> For instance bash is often listed as being part
> of a minimal installation pattern for a normal system installation.  This is
> wrong!  For _using_ an installed system bash is not needed.  It is obviously
> needed for some other packages to run their startup scripts and stuff like
> that.  But this is solved by the other packages drawing in bash by
> dependencies.  This also applies to glibc and more packages.  If you list them
> explicitely you have made the mess yourself.

>From a theoretical POV, I agree and see your point.

>From a practical POV, I'd rather have YaST tell me "removing bash breaks your
base system" instead of listing (possibly hundreds) of packages depending
on bash.


Klaus
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