On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:55:40 -0700 Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 02:20:34PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 09, 2010 at 03:14:18PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > > apt-listchanges recommends exim4 | mail-transport-agent. However, > > > apt-listchanges works perfectly well when just displaying the > > > list of changes to a pager at install time, and only needs an MTA > > > if mailing the list of changes elsewhere. Please consider > > > downgrading the dependency to a suggestion, to avoid pulling in > > > an MTA by default (since recommends now get installed by default). > > > > Default apt-listchanges configuration sends mails, and I'm unsure > > this should change. > > What if the default apt-listchanges configuration sent mails iff you > have an MTA installed, and silently ignored a missing MTA (since the > user evidently doesn't want local mail in that case)? Then I wouldn't > even need to change the apt-listchanges default configuration for > where to send mail to not send it anywhere. > > Under those circumstances, "Suggests" seems appropriate. True, this makes sense, though for now I think it throws an exception :) But yes, this does make sense. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madco...@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
