Re: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess

[Peter Samuelson <peter@p12n.org>]

[Mike Bird]
> No one objected to having apt decide by giving priority
> precedence over lexical:

It sounds good until you notice just how many dependency resolvers we
have floating around.  dselect, apt, aptitude, pbuilder, sbuild - at
least.  Don't know if synaptic has its own or borrows from libapt.

Without researching it, I'd say the 'default-mta' virtual package is
more likely to work everywhere.  And historically, it doesn't always
pay to hold your breath waiting for both dpkg and apt to implement a
new feature.
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