On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 08:25:25PM -0600, John Galt wrote:
> This would be more of an arguement for a MTA being a priority:required
> rather than a Depends: on an Extra package. The other question that this
There are a selection of MTAs. No given one of them is required, it's
just that you ought to have one installed.
> begs is: Do these other packages that call sendmail depend on a MTA? Not
> RECOMMEND, but DEPEND--if not, why the disparity? BTW you're right that a
Policy requires that packages do not depend on any package of lower
priority, and in any case a recommendation is almost as strong as a
dependancy in dselect (of course, many people use apt these days).
> MTA is essential, but I'm doubting that it can be said to be a dependency
> of a MUA, more like a recommends:
For MUAs which send mail by calling sendmail, it is pretty much a
dependancy.
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