Wonky package dependencies?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Apr 18 13:38:53 UTC 2006


Antony Gelberg wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> 
>> The general consensus here when postfix stopped being part of
>> ubuntu-desktop was that an MTA _is_ required for server installs and not
>> for a desktop install.
> 
> I wish I'd seen that discussion.  I'm shocked that any *nix system would
> install itself with no MTA.

I can't say I was in agreement :-) but I did understand the point the
developers were making.  However, I still think there are too many things
that don't work properly without one, and I see little benefit to providing
an alternative.
-- 
derek





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