Dan White <dwh...@olp.net> writes: > The following common packages contain dependencies on libsasl2 but > function just fine without having any additional authentication mechs: > > postfix > libldap2/ldap-utils/slapd > mutt > subversion > asterisk
This is the case that I mentioned. Those are all packages for which the use of SASL is optional. The SASL component is not functional for nearly all normal uses without plugins, but there are many normal uses of those packages where SASL isn't interesting. Due to the way shared libraries work, the base SASL library has to be installed, but it's never called. Postfix is an excellent example of the sort of package that has SASL support and therefore needs the SASL libraries installed, but where most installations probably don't use SASL at all. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
