On Monday 01 March 2010 13:59:23 Carlos Williams wrote: > I am trying to install Debian (Testing) via 'netinst' disk and for > some reason am completely unable to install Debian w/o Exim. It > appears that Cron is a default package and depends on Exim. Or any other mail-transport-daemon. > Does > anyone know how I can completely omit this from a fresh Debian > install? I think installing postfix at the same time or before cron should do it. I usually install a very minimal system and them build up from there outside of the installer. I can't remember if this brought in exim4-daemon-light. > When I run: > > apt-get remove --purge exim4 I'm not sure exactly how apt-get handles this situation, but the exim4 package doesn't contain most of the files that are part of an exim4 installation. The binaries are shipped in package exim4-daemon-light or exim4-daemon-heavy; the docs are in another package; the debconf stuff is in exim4-config. So, even though you specified 'remove' and '--purge', I'm not convinced you've told your package manager to get rid of all files exim4-related. > I am still left with tons of man pages, config files, user accounts > (Debian-exim) for the application I just removed. Basically I am left > with a bunch if orphaned junk files for an application I never wanted > to have installed to begin with. IIRC, user accounts aren't removed, even on purge. Something do to with not wanting the have the UID get reused by an unrelated program. I could be wrong though, e.g. if that UID (range) is statically allocated by Debian. > Any advice? After installing an alternate mail-transport-agent (aptitude search '~c'). If that shows any packages, you may want to (aptitude purge '~c'). > *PS - I am trying to use Postfix for a replacement MTA and even when I > install Postfix, Postfix works well in the Debian environment, or so I'm told. > it auto removes Exim4 however still leaves all the > orphaned files and junk.* I'm not convinced this is a statement of fact, but depending on how the installer does things it could be accurate. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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