On Fri, Jul 05 2013 10:39:54 +0200, Steffen Kram wrote: > Theres one problem in using postfix over the provided sendmail. Some > core packages depend on a sendmail installation e.g. smtp-notify. In > this case I also provide a modified version (changed sendmail > dependency to optional) for smtp-notify but I'm not quite satisfied > that I have to repackage such basic system packages to throw out > sendmail dependencies. > > Maybe, it would be possible to enable such packages to be used with > other mta-implementations. It's not a problem on servers that do not > run a mta … but if you run postfix anyway, you do not want an > additional sendmail, but you may want things like smtp-notify for your > hardware/system errors.
I'd like to see this as well. I package postfix myself (because I want to use /usr prefix for packaged software :), but I can't install it at the same time as sendmail since both ship a 'sendmail' binary. IPS has mediations that can solve the problem, but I don't know if you can make packages depend on a mediation; that would allow choosing other MTA implementations (provided that sendmail then also participated in the mediation). -- Lauri Tirkkonen _______________________________________________ OmniOS-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
