On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:52:37AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote: > #include <hallo.h> > * Colin Watson [Wed, Aug 06 2003, 08:36:25AM]: > > > Why not appease both? Let mutt depend on > > > mail-transport-agent | no-user-mta > > > > > > and tell such MTA hating users to create a fake "no-user-mta" package > > > with equivs. > > There's no point; it's just as easy to create a fake package that > > provides mail-transport-agent with equivs. Or they could install > > something tiny like nullmailer or ssmtp and leave it at that. > This OTOH may be dangerous, another packages that really rely on a > working /usr/sbin/sendmail must be able to depend on > mail-transport-agent and get one. Of course it's dangerous; overriding dependencies with the use of equivs is always a little sketchy. But if you're this concerned about not having an MTA installed on your system (there are many choices in Debian, some of them quite lightweight), you must have a reason, right? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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