smartmontools package requirements

[Nish Aravamudan]

Hi Zack,


On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 23:22 Zack Coffey <clickwir at gmail.com wrote:

> Installed smartmontools and it required a bunch of other unneeded packages.
>
> Example: guile-2.0-libs libgc1c2 libgsasl7 libkyotocabinet16v5
> libmailutils5 libntlm0 mailutils mailutils-common postfix
>
> I don't want or need any mail utilities on every single machine that I
> need smartmontools on. Ok, I might want 'sendemail' at the very least, but
> I certainly do not need 'postfix'.
>
> Can we discuss removing some of these extra packages and make
> smartmontools a little more streamlined?
>

Are you possibly installing suggests or recommends of smartmontools? In
Disco (and afaict this was true in 16.04 too), none of what you mentioned
are listed as dependencies at
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/disco/amd64/smartmontools/6.6-1.

Thanks,
Nish
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