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Re: Policy regarding virtual packages



On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 04:01:57PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> Making mail-transport-agent the empty package, and having it depend only on 
> exim4 (the default), should work. Of course, exim4 can't conflict with it  
> (but it's enough that all the others do),

No, that's not enough.  The exim4 package has file conflicts with the other
implementors of m-t-a; there need to be Conflicts declared *directly*
between exim4 and the others.

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