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Re: I have my own MTA, thank you very much



On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:33:41PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:

> How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much,
> and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing?  Is there
> a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a
> package?  I'm not interested in having to tell dselect, dpkg, or apt
> to ignore dependencies.  I want to tell them that I have fulfilled a
> dependency via non-package means, and never be asked about that
> dependency again.

Look at the equivs package.  You need to produce a dummy package which
is called or provides mail-transport-agent.

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