On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 02:48:48PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> I'm wondering why it was added to base. I understand it's
> priority standard and the default debian MTA, but...
It's priority important, and other important packages depend on it, in
particular mailx and at. I guess all three of those could be dropped to
standard reasonably. Maybe. ?
> > even better give the user a choice of a couple popular options:
Sure. That's what dselect's for.
> Sounds like more work than we should be doing at this level... This
> sort of thing seems like more of a job for tasksel.
Nope, tasksel isn't for alternative implementations of the same thing.
Cheers,
aj
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