ubuntu-base should depend on telnet-client (which is provided by telnet, telnet-ssl)

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Thu Dec 23 03:09:11 UTC 2004


On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 01:47:46PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote:

> I think ubuntu-base really should depend on telnet-client, because
> installing telnet-ssl would remove ubuntu-base

This is one of a related set of FAQs which should probably be documented.
The fact that ubuntu-base is removed if you remove one of its dependencies
is intentional; having ubuntu-base installed means that you have the
standard set of base packages (of which telnet-ssl is not one).

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 - mdz




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