On 06/24/2013 05:01 AM, Aaron Sowry wrote: > On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 22:40 -0400, Jeff Licquia wrote: >> This is possible. The exim4-daemon-light package, for example, takes >> heroic steps to do the right thing in as many situations as possible >> without any end-user configuration, which is why it's the default. > > But is it heroic enough to be able to determine whether the user wants a > full MTA, or just /usr/sbin/sendmail to satisfy LSB requirements? How > could it differentiate these two cases?
I think the idea is that the "full MTA experience" is exim4-daemon-heavy, while exim4-daemon-light is the "just enough MTA" experience. > Assume for a moment that we nuke lsb-invalid-mta, and make > exim4-daemon-light a dependency of lsb-core. Is it smart enough to > figure out that it doesn't need to configure the daemon based on the > fact that it was installed as a dependency of lsb-core? I guess we still > want the following to happen: > > - If either exim4 or exim4-daemon-light are installed explicitly, then > we want the daemon to be configured > > - If exim4 or exim4-daemon-light are installed explicitly *after* > lsb-core, we want to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-daemon-light > > Or perhaps it would be better to have a separate meta-package which > doesn't configure the daemon? AFAICT installing exim4-daemon-heavy > either before or after lsb-core in this scenario should take care of > itself. I think these cases are already handled by exim4-daemon-light, since it's installed automatically in nearly all cases by debian-installer. All we need to do is... Depends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent ...and the right thing happens. (The "default-mta" package is provided by exim4-daemon-light.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
