On Wed, 5 Dec 2001, Adam McKenna wrote: > Package: wnpp > Severity: wishlist > > I'd like to discuss the creation of an mta-dummy package. > > This package would have no files (except perhaps a small doc), and provide > mail-transport-agent. >... > If anyone can think of a serious reason that this shouldn't be in the archive > (i.e., other than that you think it's silly, or the standard Packages file > bloat argument), please speak up, otherwise I'll upload this in a week or so.
1. Someone installs a package (e.g. mutt) with a dependency on mail-transport-agent. 2. dselect (or another similar tool) tells him that he need to install a package that provides mail-transport-agent. 3. The random package he selects (because he doesn's has any clue what a mail-transport-agent is) is your mta-dummy package. Please consider this to be a serious reason. And I think I can point everyone who has a reason to build his MTA himself and who knows how to do this to have no problem with a simple apt-get install equivs cd /tmp cp /usr/share/doc/equivs/examples/mail-transport-agent.ctl . equivs-build mail-transport-agent.ctl dpkg -i mta-local_1.0_all.deb > --Adam cu Adrian -- Get my GPG key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | gpg --import Fingerprint: B29C E71E FE19 6755 5C8A 84D4 99FC EA98 4F12 B400
