Re: I don't need an MTA

[Nuno Magalhães <nunomagalhaes@eu.ipp.pt>]

> Would you mind posting the output of 'aptitude why mail-transfer-agent' or
> 'aptitude why exim', whichever is more enlightening?

$ aptitude why mail-transport-agent
i   lsb      Depends lsb-core
i A lsb-core Depends exim4 | mail-transport-agent

Same results if i why on exim4. I assume lsb includes cron and other
base-level tools that require mail functionality. Is this "all" that
is depending on the MTA in my system? What's the equivalent apt
command btw? show and showpkg don't seem to apply only to installed
packages.

As far as i can tell from locate and du, the whole MTA-stuff uses less
than 2MB, so i guess fixing the boot delay exim causes/d would be my
main concern. I guess having an MTA is a side-effect of the whole
client/server thing; prejucide or not it's an opinion.

Thanks for the help.
Nuno Magalhães