Re: Qmail installation RESOLVED !
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 07:24:47PM +0100, Mikael Jirari wrote:
> But it's always very difficult(to me) to uninstall exim !!!
> What would you do if you want to remove exim without removing apache for
> instance ?
Install another MTA in packaged form, or a dummy MTA package. If you're
using apt-get, it remove exim automatically. If not, you can always use
--auto-deconfigure to remove it temporarily until you get the other
installed.
> I don't know equivs, what is it ?
A package which allows you to construct dummy packages. Install it and
read the manuals provided. It even comes with an example in
/usr/share/doc/equivs/examples/mail-transport-agent.ctl of exactly what
you need.
By the way, it's not apache which depends (directly) on a
mail-transport-agent. The log rotation utility it uses, logrotate,
depends on mailx, which depends on mail-transport-agent. The dependency
on mailx has been dropped to a recommendation in the development track
of Debian.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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