Hi Franck Yes this would be a thing to do. I have stick to the mail command because it is simpler. I have also used this as it has a more standardized interface than sendmail.
However it could detect the command to use and select accordingly so that we could have the following dependency. mailutils | bsd-mailx | mailx | exim4 | sendmail | mail-transport-agent It would be something like if [ -x /usr/bin/mail ] ; then ... elif [ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ] ; then ... else # something here? fi A patch for this would be nice of course, but I'll add this to the list of things to do. Best regards, // Ola On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:50:51PM +0100, Franck Joncourt wrote: > Package: debarchiver > Version: 0.8.4-1 > Severity: wishlist > > I was checking why the mailutils package was installed on my system. > I found out that debarchiver was the culprit :) > > I think debarchiver should not use the mail command but rather the > sendmail command. According to me, the mail command is more for end users. > > This will require to replace the following dependencies: > > mailutils | bsd-mailx | mailx > > by > > exim4 | mail-transport-agent > > and some changes in your email function as well. > > What do you think? > > Regards, > > -- > Franck Joncourt > http://debian.org - http://smhteam.info/wiki/ > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / o...@debian.org Annebergsslingan 37 \ | o...@inguza.com 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
