| severity 356297 wishlist
| tag 356297 wontfix
| thanks
|
| * Jari Aalto [Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:40:00 +0200]:
|
| > Package: mutt
| > Version: 1.5.9-2
| > Severity: normal
|
| > The Dpends includes:
|
| > exim4 | mail-transport-agent
|
| > This should not be the case.
|
| This has been discussed extensively in the past. As I understand it,
| consesus was that it's ok for packages to "force" the presence of a
| package providing m-t-a in Debian systems.
|
| I'm tagging this bug wontfix instead of closing it so that, if you're
| really interested in changing this, you can get some other developers
| to express their opinion on this. In other words, I won't be changing
| this by my initiative, but if a number of fellow developers whom I
| trust tell me they think it'd be benefitial to do so, I'd be willing
| to without trouble.
Would it be possible to provide a virtual package, which, would be
exacltly the same as current, but "exim4 | mail-transport-agent"
removed. Like:
Package: mutt-without-mta
Priority: standard
Section: mail
Replaces: mutt, mutt-utf8
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libdb4.3 (>= 4.3.28-1), libgnutls12 (>=
1.2.5), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-5), libsasl2 (>= 2.1.19)
I really would like to see a solution to this.
Using mutt as a standalone *.mbox readed sotware would be highly
welcomed, without the extra need to install the MTA to small systems,
like USB keys etc or to old PCs, which can use some other direct SMTP
program.
Jari
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