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Re: [desktop] Installation of mail server by default



On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:06:01PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> It forces to delete exim. Installing xdm does not remove gdm.
[...]
> Other issues are:
>   * You can not install both to read documentations

Both exim and postfix (for example) provide seperate -doc packages which
do not depend on the actual mta package. So you can install the
documentation of both. sendmail-doc and courier-doc also exist.
There are some other minor MTAs which don't provide seperate doc
packages, but they could.

>   * This conflicts move postfix to "extra" instead of "optional".

Is that really an issue?


Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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