David Raeker-Jordan wrote: > 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. > Try this: apt-get -us install qmail The -us will show you exactly what apt will do, but will not install or remove any packages. I always run it before I install or remove packages. -- David Raeker-Jordan mailto:rkrjrdn@epix.net GnuPG key: 1024D/CD956608
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