On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:37:25PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > to throw even more monkeywrenches in the gearbox, some people may have > compiled an MTA outside of the packaging system, and be using qmail/ > sendmail/postfix (the uspported MTA's) but not have it registered with > apt/dpkg at all.
well that is a slippery slope, because with that argument you could kill any dependancies anywhere. if someone is replacing a package with something outside of debians control than that person is responsible for telling debian that the dependancy is fullfilled after all. if a mail-server is needed then a mailserver is needed. therefore it should be listed as dependancy. greetings, martin. -- interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer working in europe csl-gmbh.net open-steam.org (www.archlab|(www|db).hb2).tuwien.ac.at unix bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/