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Bug#3243: recommendations should not be requirements in dselect



  Matthew> Also, try installing at (version 2.9a-11) without installing
  Matthew> mailx.  The recommends line says:
  Matthew>
  Matthew>   Recommends: smail | sendmail | mail-trasfer-agent, mailx
  Matthew>
  Matthew> I have smail installed, but nevertheless dselect forces me to
  Matthew> select mailx also.

This correct. Only the mailx package provides the
	echo spong | mail someuser
functionality that at needs.

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Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd


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