Francesco Potorti` ha scritto: > What you describe is a software decision that has a problem (a bug). > There must be a way out of this problem. If that decision cannot be > modified for some reason, then some other way should be found. One > possibility would be for the init.d script to signal an error upon > starting the daemon when it detects this particular problem. But there > may be other possibilities. The bottom line is that one cannot let this > problem go undetected by design: this would mean that the design is > flawed (bugged).
If smartmontools haven't mailx in Depends, warning the user about the missing /usr/bin/mail doesn't make sense. Default config must work without any warnings for all users, with or without the mail binary. smartmontools can work without /usr/bin/mail, simply install mailx if you want mail. Cheers, Giuseppe.
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