Russ Allbery writes:
> Mark Delany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > At 07:37 AM Monday 3/22/99, Kevin Waterson wrote:
>
> >> I need to install innd adnd it requires sendmail apparently
>
> > Er, nope. It requires a command that submits mail, which it commonly
> > assumes is sendmail. You might want to read your INN installation notes
> > more closely.
>
> Could also be a poorly done RPM. A lot of RPMs for programs that have to
> send mail incorrectly add a dependency on sendmail (rather than a more
> general dependency on a mailer).
The stock INN rpm has no such requirements whatsoever:
[root@ny root]# rpm -q --requires inn
/sbin/chkconfig
cleanfeed
/bin/sh
ld-linux.so.2
libc.so.6
libcrypt.so.1
libdb.so.2
libdl.so.2
libgdbm.so.2
libm.so.6
libnsl.so.1
/bin/sh
/usr/bin/perl
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Sam
