Hi Tobi, The problem is that it is not possible just to disable recommends for this particular package when I do automated installation with preseeding or any other way.
Best regards, Stanislav On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System < ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the smartmontools package: > > #750756: smartmontools: mailx should be in suggests rather than recommends > > It has been closed by Tobias Frost <t...@debian.org>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Tobias Frost < > t...@debian.org> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 750756: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=750756 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tobias Frost <t...@debian.org> > To: 750756-d...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: > Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 18:07:20 +0100 > Subject: > Dear Stanislav, > > You can install any package that provides mailx, if you want. > Also, you can configure apt not to pull in Recommends. > > Otherwise, "Recommends" as per Policy defines > "The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together > with this one in all but unusual installations." > > and this is here the case. > > Closing. > > -- > tobi > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Stanislav German-Evtushenko <ginerm...@gmail.com> > To: mainto...@bugs.debian.org > Cc: > Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 18:48:56 +0400 > Subject: smartmontools: mailx should be in suggests rather than recommends > Package: smartmontools > Version: 6.2+svn3841-1.2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > smartmontools installs mailx by default as it is in recommends. It seems > not a proper behaviour. > > So if I install smartmontools it also installs not only mailx but also > mail-transport-agent which is not required in most cases. > > Best regards, > Stanislav > >
