Bug#4064: sendmail should recommend deliver, not depend
miquels@cistron.nl said:
> You (Michael Shields) wrote:
...
> > perfectly without deliver. sendmail should only recommend it.
>
> And as a result you can install sendmail without deliver and your
> mail installation won't work at all..
One could introduce another virtual package (e.g., local-mail), have sendmail
depend on this. Both procmail and deliver could provide this package. Sounds
like a bit of an overkill for this problem, though.
> Sendmail should come with mail.local instead of deliver IMHO.
I think that is the simpler and better solution.
Cheers,
Lukas
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