On 28/08/2006 Magnus Holmgren wrote: > Making mail-transport-agent the empty package, and having it depend only on > exim4 (the default), should work. Of course, exim4 can't conflict with it > (but it's enough that all the others do), so if the default is changed then > the old default, the new default, and the empty package have to be modified, > but not the packages depending on mail-transport-agent. I don't think that > this is the right solution though. It's just a thought. this way, no virtual package would exist at all. mail-transport-agent would depend on exim4, and every package depending on mail-transport-agent would do so as well. no alternative mta could be installed together with packages depending on mail-transport-agent. i don't like the name mail-transport-agent-default, though. maybe 'mail-transport-agent-dep' (for dependence) would be a more proper name. mail-transport-agent should stay the virtual package. in general, i support this proposal. ... jonas
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