In the process of trying to trim down an existing testing distribution, I attempted to uninstall sendmail from it. When I ran 'apt-get remove sendmail' I got the following: veggie:~# apt-get remove sendmail Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: at junkbuster lilo logrotate mailx mutt sendmail 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 7826kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] After doing a little research the reason for this is the following dependancy chain. lilo -> logrotate -> mailx -> mail-transport-agent (provided by sendmail) Although in the small, each step of that dependancy chain seems to make some sense, I would consider the overall effect bad. It doesn't seem like a bootloader should require active mail to run. -Sean -- Sean Dague sean@dague.net There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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