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Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt



On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 02:12:17AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote:
> 
> There are programs, like mutt, that depend on a smtp-mailer-daemon.
> You installed exim to satisfy this dependency. Now if you prefer using qmail instead of exim, just install qmail, and afaik exim will be automatically removed.
> At least this worked for me the other way round using apt-get.
> 
> qmail was installed.
> apt-get install exim      // removed qmail and installed exim 

yes that is how it works right now, all MTAs conflict with each other,
however there is talk on debian-devel about changing this so you can
multiple MTAs installed at the same time..  personally i think this is
insane but...

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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