In the process of trying to trim down an existing testing distribution, I attempted to uninstall sendmail from it. When I ran 'apt-get remove sendmail' I got the following:
veggie:~# apt-get remove sendmail
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
at junkbuster lilo logrotate mailx mutt sendmail
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 7826kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
After doing a little research the reason for this is the following
dependancy chain.
lilo -> logrotate -> mailx -> mail-transport-agent (provided by sendmail)
Although in the small, each step of that dependancy chain seems to make some
sense, I would consider the overall effect bad. It doesn't seem like a
bootloader should require active mail to run.
-Sean
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