Re: apt-get remove exim .... wants to remove more?
Andy wrote:
> > All of those packages depend on a MTA; try "apt-get install qmail."
> > Apt will be much happier when it realizes that you are merely switching
> > MTAs. Also, apt will leave your exim config files, so you can merely
> > "apt-get install exim" at the end of your test drive and things should go
> > back to the way they were.
>
> Can leave Exim installed if I install Qmail from source?
> (Exim is not started at boot time)
>
> If so then I might just leave Exim alone and install Qmail from source.
> I want to do Qmail from source so I know where things are.
> Don't get me wrong, apt-get is my best friend, but sometimes I don't
> learn what is going on behind the scenes.
>
The other day I decided to play with postfix; I ran "apt-get install
postfix" and exim ended up being removed. After I had played with postfix
for a while, I ran "apt-get install exim" and my system was returned to its
former state. Exim worked just as it had before I installed postfix.
Of course, YMMV.
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David Raeker-Jordan
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