* Greg Klanderman via Postfix-users <[email protected]> [260404 15:06]: > Hi Marvin, > > Thank you for your reply.. that matches what I see. > > I had not realized recommends were installed by default.. I was > wondering how those and suggests differed but hadn't gotten to looking > it up yet. > > I had not used --no-install-recommends, simply 'apt install postfix' > and libsasl2-modules was not installed.
[snip] > The following day, it shows that I ran 'apt upgrade' and libsasl2-2 > was upgraded, but not libsasl2-modules (which appears to have matching > versioning). > > I have to conclude that libsasl2-2 must have already been installed, > without libsasl2-modules, when I installed postfix. > > Does that make sense? Since it was not installing libsasl2-2, the > recommends: libsasl2-modules was not considered, only the postfix > package suggests: libsasl2-modules. Exactly. > Maybe it would make sense for postfix to directly recommend: rather > than suggest: libsasl2-modules? I don't think so, but I'm not sure. The Debian maintainer would be the person to decide this. ...Marvin _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
