Pat Farrell;211772 Wrote: > > Yes, that thread has someone saying they think MySql or something needs > it. >
On Debian (dunno about Ubuntu), it is cron that recommends exim4 | postfix |mail-transfer-agent. I already stated the reasons, but they are there in the Debian Packages file. Here are the details, from cron: Recommends: exim4 | postfix | mail-transport-agent Suggests: anacron (>= 2.0-1), logrotate, lockfile-progs, checksecurity Lookie, there it is. And if we install logrotate as a suggestion (which we should): Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libpopt0 (>= 1.7), libselinux1 (>= 1.30), cron | anacron | fcron, base-passwd (>= 2.0.3.4) Recommends: mailx And then mailx: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0), exim4 | mail-transport-agent, base-files (>= 2.2.0) That adds up to a lot of pressure on apt to install something that satisfies mail-transport-agent. For some reason it chose postfix. Nullmailer would do at least as well for most people, though postfix in local mode would work fine, too. > > And perhaps the installation "needs" it to get something else that > really is needed. But postfix is not needed by MySql or SlimServer. > No, but both can bring in piles of other things: most specifically cron for log rotation. This is why it is useful to install a mailer and why nullmailer exists. (It is also useful in instances where apt for some reason gets mad and kills off the controlling terminal... it then nicely mails a "oops, i killed your terminal, this is what i was doing.") > > Chasing this down may be a lot of work, and perhaps not really > justified. Package inter-dependancies can get *very* complex. > And real men just install from source? Or do you reserve such insults for me and not kdf for some reason? -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36497 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
