Re: apt-get remove exim .... wants to remove more?
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:38:43PM +0100, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 18:54, 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
>
> Run dselect. First select qmail, and then deselect exim. That way, the
> smtp dependency will remain satisfied.
>
Unfortunately qmail can't be distributed as a binary. However there is
a qmail-src package which can be used to build a binary .deb package.
Hopefully that will provide mail-transport-agent and conflict with
exim, making it installable without removing the other packages.
Reply to: