Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthew Dalton wrote: > > Just having a look at the current mailx debs... > > Stable has version 1:8.1.1-11 > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0), smail | > > mail-transport-agent > > > > Unstable & Testing have version 1:8.1.2-0.20010922cvs-1 > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0), > > mail-transport-agent, base-files (>= 2.2.0) > > > > These dependencies look reasonable to me. If you don't have one of these > > two versions, maybe you could try upgrading mailx before attempting to > > remove zmailer? > > Good idea, I will have a look at these tonight on my Alpha and > compare to the Intel versions. The Alpha may be older.
alpha binaries are probably compiled on a different machine, and some of these dependencies are automatically generated, IIRC. it's possible the alpha version was incorrectly tied to zmailer. .. having to fiddle when the packages are released with oversights isn't a huge problem though. the benefits outway the costs :) it can just be confusing to start with. cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
