Re: mailutils in stretch
Le 07/07/17 à 16:39, Sven Joachim a écrit :
> On 2017-07-07 05:19 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 07, 2017 at 09:41:33AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
>>> On 2017-07-07 02:06 -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
>>>> What was the reason for omitting mailutils (and, specifically, a
>>>> functional /usr/bin/mail binary) from the default strech install?
>>>
>>> For the record, mailutils have never been part of a default install, but
>>> bsd-mailx (which also provides /usr/bin/mail) was until Jessie.
>>
>> I stand corrected. bsd-mailx does sound more familiar, now that you
>> mention it, but mailutils was the (first) `mail`-providing package I
>> found when I started looking with `apt-cache search`.
>>
>>>> That's kind of a standard thing to be there on *nix systems...
>>>
>>> For better or worse, a default Debian installation seems to not omit
>>> various programs that have been standard on Unix systems.
>
> Argh, I am sorry. I meant to say just the opposite by leaving out the
> extra "not", In fact, various packages have been demoted from Priority
> standard or important to optional in recent years. This includes the
> venerable "ed" text editor for instance, and also any package providing
> /usr/bin/mail. Apparently the reason is that they pull in an MTA which
> is also no longer included by default. Which seems sensible to me BTW.
A small relaying only MTA could be installed by default, eg ssmtp.
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