smartmontools package requirements

[Zack Coffey]

sudo apt install smartmontools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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The following additional packages will be installed:
 guile-2.0-libs libgc1c2 libgsasl7 libkyotocabinet16v5 libmailutils5
libntlm0 mailutils mailutils-common postfix
Suggested packages:
 mailutils-mh mailutils-doc procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql
postfix-ldap postfix-pcre postfix-lmdb postfix-sqlite sasl2-bin
 dovecot-common resolvconf postfix-cdb postfix-doc gsmartcontrol
smart-notifier
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 guile-2.0-libs libgc1c2 libgsasl7 libkyotocabinet16v5 libmailutils5
libntlm0 mailutils mailutils-common postfix smartmontools
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I guess so. Just wanted to install smartmontools and, by default, came with
a bunch of other things that aren't needed.


On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:00 PM Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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