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Re: pre/post install scripts and pre-depends

'Guy Maor wrote:'
>
>Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org> writes:
>
>> I am not sure what you want. I can scan for the interpreter of all scripts
>> and have dependencies for those interpreters if thats it.
>
>No, it should be a pre-dependency, and only if the interpreter is not
>provided by an essential package.  It's never necessary to relate to
>an essential package as they are always installed & configured by
>definition.

But the only programs that should be called from
{pre,post}{install,rm} scripts are by policy from essential packages.
Hence there is no need for the pre-dependency.

Perhaps, I'm making this up.  Since I can't find guidance from the
policy nor programmer's manual.  Or is it (as I suspect) a bug that the
policy manual doesn't say that all scripts should only use
programs/scripting languages supplied by essential packages?

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