On 12/09/14 16:46, Aidas Kasparas wrote:
>> If anyone on this list would like to cooperate with a "lite" debian
>> package then please contact me off-list.
>
> The "lite" package is not necessary. Problem lies in default
> configuration of apt system -- by default it installs all Recomended
> packages. I always switch that settings off as one of the first tasks
> during install.

Thank you Aidas. I have progressed using your suggestion...

apt-get install --no-install-recommends courier-authdaemon \
  courier-authlib courier-authlib-mysql courier-authlib-sqlite \
  courier-base courier-imap courier-imap-ssl courier-maildrop \
  courier-mta courier-mta-ssl courier-ssl

However the above courier-authlib still depends on "expect" which brings
in libtcl8.6 and tcl-expect, which I have no intention of using. From...

http://www.courier-mta.org/authlib/README_authlib.html

"SqWebMail uses an expect script - as mentioned in the introduction - to
answer interactive prompts from passwd. The expect script expects to get
a plain, garden-variety, passwd command, which acts something like this:
[... example removed ...]
Systems that use a passwd command with very different prompts may find
that the default expect script will fail. In which case it will be
necessary to tweak the expect script to match the prompts from the
system's passwd command."

I would have thought a) "expect" would be a depends of SqWebMail and not
courier-authlib and b) I would also have used "chpasswd" from a script
as it's been available in the standard linux passwd package for as long
as I can remember. I have never used expect so maybe there are cases
where it is necessary.

Sam, is there any way that chpasswd could substitute for expect+tcl?

And if not, is it safe to assume that expect should only be a depends
for SqWebMail and not authlib (ie; when sqwebmail is not installed)?

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