Hi Tobi,
The problem is that it is not possible just to disable recommends for this
particular package when I do automated installation with preseeding or any
other way.
Best regards,
Stanislav
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System <
ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
> which was filed against the smartmontools package:
>
> #750756: smartmontools: mailx should be in suggests rather than recommends
>
> It has been closed by Tobias Frost .
>
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> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Tobias Frost
> To: 750756-d...@bugs.debian.org
> Cc:
> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2015 18:07:20 +0100
> Subject:
> Dear Stanislav,
>
> You can install any package that provides mailx, if you want.
> Also, you can configure apt not to pull in Recommends.
>
> Otherwise, "Recommends" as per Policy defines
> "The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together
> with this one in all but unusual installations."
>
> and this is here the case.
>
> Closing.
>
> --
> tobi
>
> -- Forwarded message --
> From: Stanislav German-Evtushenko
> To: mainto...@bugs.debian.org
> Cc:
> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 18:48:56 +0400
> Subject: smartmontools: mailx should be in suggests rather than recommends
> Package: smartmontools
> Version: 6.2+svn3841-1.2
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> smartmontools installs mailx by default as it is in recommends. It seems
> not a proper behaviour.
>
> So if I install smartmontools it also installs not only mailx but also
> mail-transport-agent which is not required in most cases.
>
> Best regards,
> Stanislav
>
>
