Postfix removal - yikes

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:23 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 01/26/2011 07:37 PM, Nick Edwards wrote:
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>   lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-desktop lsb-graphics lsb-languages lsb-multimedia
>> lsb-printing mailx postfix
>>
>> I am going to use another non-debian (no repo) mail system so I need to
>> remove postfix, can someone offer hint on how to do this
>> without losing all the other files as well?
>>
>> crazy to remove mailx since a system can send mail without postfix or
>> sendmail, exim, et al.
>
> It's a dummy package, so I don't think it should have any effect.

When I ran "aptitude remove postfix", bsd-mailx (not virtual and
necessary for the OP's purposes) was meant to be removed too - except
for the fact that aptitude's resolver has another solution.