Hi all, I'm looking for some explanation regarding the lsb-invalid-mta package. I'm not quite sure where to start, although perhaps we can begin with an excerpt from the package description:
"This package contains nothing else than a fake /usr/sbin/sendmail command to fulfill the LSB's requirement of providing this command without requiring an MTA to get installed" Huh? How does this "fulfill" anything? The requirement is that the sendmail command can be used to send mail, not just that some command called sendmail should exist, regardless of what it actually does (or does not do). Applications which are designed to run on LSB-compliant systems expect to be able to send mail using this interface, and if they can't, then the system is not LSB compliant. Trying to pretend that it is just makes things worse. I won't even get into the next paragraph of the package description - is there anyone who can explain the reasoning behind this approach? /Aaron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
