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Re: apt-get remove exim .... wants to remove more?



On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:54:55AM -0900, Andy wrote:
| 
| I want to install qmail to give it a test drive

I recommend reading this document first :
    http://www-dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/~ma/qmail-bugs.html

| and thought it might be a good thing to remove exim.  But look at
| all that will be removed below....
| Why does Debian want to remove all those other packages?

Those other packages all require a mail-transport-agent.  If you
simply remove exim you will have no mail-transport-agent installed,
and that dependency won't be met.  Use the 'equivs' package to create
a dummy MTA package to meet that dependency.

-D

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