On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:38:43PM +0100, Jean-Marc V. Liotier wrote: > On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 18:54, Andy wrote: > > I want to install qmail to give it a test drive and thought it might be a good > > thing to remove exim. But look at all that will be removed below.... > > Why does Debian want to remove all those other packages? > > > > steelhead:~# apt-get remove exim > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > The following packages will be REMOVED: > > anacron apache at exim leafnode logrotate mailagent mailx mutt qpopper samba > > swat > > Run dselect. First select qmail, and then deselect exim. That way, the > smtp dependency will remain satisfied. >
Unfortunately qmail can't be distributed as a binary. However there is a qmail-src package which can be used to build a binary .deb package. Hopefully that will provide mail-transport-agent and conflict with exim, making it installable without removing the other packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
