Re: apt-get should correctly process dependencies
On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 05:40:15PM +0000, Pedro Miguel Guerreiro <pmguerre@ualg.pt> spake forth:
> > > Package mailx has broken dep on mail-transport-agent
> > > Considering zmailer-ssl 0 as a solution to mailx 8
> > > Holding Back mailx rather than change mail-transport-agent
> >
> > Now this is wrong, it should have picked zmailer-ssl. Anyway, there should
> > be other packages providing mail-transport-agent, not just zmailer-ssl...
>
> Read above. It _must_ pick exim. After all, what's the use of having a default
> MTA, if the packages don't pick it up when thay need a MTA? ;-)
No, it should depend on the virtual package mail-transport-agent. That's its
whole reason for existence. Debian prefers free software, but it's not about
forcing a particular piece of software down your throat. If it were, I'd
make aide conflict with and replace tripwire ;). Not every sysadmin wants to
run exim and that's recognized, just as not every sysadmin wants to run
apache (which is one of the packages that provides httpd), etc. - hence the
virtual package system.
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