Bug#4064: sendmail should recommend deliver, not depend
>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.
Umm, no. There are many ways of configuring sendmail, and a number of
these (including one of the supplied configurations) do not require
local mail delivery. Indeed, I've got quite a few debian 1.1 machines
here happily running sendmail without local mail delivery (since I use
a mailhost).
'Recommends' my be appropriate here. Depends? Nope. I can very
easily configure and run sendmail in a sane manner without ever
needing deliver, procmail, mail.local, or such.
Please, don't 'depend' on things unless they are *really* needed.
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Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin
bofh@bofh.me.umn.edu University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
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