Andy wrote: > > I want to install qmail to give it a test drive 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? > > steelhead:~# apt-get remove exim > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > anacron apache at exim leafnode logrotate mailagent mailx mutt qpopper samba > swat > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 12 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 15.9MB will be freed. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Abort. > steelhead:~# All of those packages depend on a MTA; try "apt-get install qmail." Apt will be much happier when it realizes that you are merely switching MTAs. Also, apt will leave your exim config files, so you can merely "apt-get install exim" at the end of your test drive and things should go back to the way they were. -- David Raeker-Jordan mailto:rkrjrdn@epix.net GnuPG key: 1024D/CD956608
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