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Re: I don't need an MTA



On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:55:50PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Nuno writes:
> > I assume lsb includes cron and other base-level tools that require mail
> > functionality.
> 
> No.  Lsb is an "extra" package that you almost certainly don't need unless
> you are running LSB-compliant closed-source software.  LSB stands for
> "Linux Standard Base".  Google it.

'aptitude rdepends lsb-base' gives results such as avahi-daemon,
apache2.2-common, bittorrent, dbus, x11-common, dhcpbd and even our own
exim4 .

More and more init script, for instance, use /lib/lsb/init-functions .

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