Re: Good news on claws-mail
On 19/10/14 00:29, Reco wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 14:24:16 +0100
> Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> On Sat 18 Oct 2014 at 14:28:26 +0200, Peter Nieman wrote:
>>
>>> On 17/10/14 20:25, Brian wrote:
>>>> Why
>>>> it needs to be compiled without dbus is also unknown.
>>>
>>> You're asking the wrong question. The question you should ask
>>> yourself is: if claws-mail works perfectly well without dbus, then
>>> why does Debian ship a version that depends on it?
>>
>> claws-mail does not depend on dbus.
>
> This page tells otherwise:
>
> https://packages.debian.org/jessie/claws-mail
>
> OK, it's 'libdbus-1-3', not 'dbus' dependency, but libdbus-1-3
> recommends dbus.
>
> Reco
>
>
I think, based on the words used, Brian means "depends" not "recommends"
i.e.:-
apt-get --no-install-recommends install claws-mail
will install claws-mail (and a host of other files) without libdbus
But I suspect he'll gently correct your tangential confusion.
Kind regards
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