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Re: I don't need an MTA



I wrote:
> 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.

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

Lsb and lsb-base are two different packages:

Package: lsb-base
Priority: required
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 72
Maintainer: Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: lsb
Version: 3.2-20
Replaces: lsb (<< 2.0-6), lsb-core (<< 2.0-6)
Depends: sed, ncurses-bin
Conflicts: lsb (<< 2.0-6), lsb-core (<< 2.0-6)
Filename: pool/main/l/lsb/lsb-base_3.2-20_all.deb
Size: 19506
MD5sum: 40e8abbcba50297be6b2b271b3288e6e
SHA1: 2d5e29a6dd47b85c52154dac1c0a4d1c708df341
SHA256: eca9b12ceb6749b1765535b5e0216d85e424cd72e93f8b2ad6bee4682ecc505a
Description: Linux Standard Base 3.2 init script functionality
 The Linux Standard Base (http://www.linuxbase.org/) is a standard
 core system that third-party applications written for Linux can
 depend upon.
 .
 This package only includes the init-functions shell library, which
 may be used by other packages' initialization scripts for console
 logging and other purposes.

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

Which is the only thing that lsb-base contains.
-- 
John Hasler


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