<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">sudo apt install smartmontools  </span><br>Reading package lists... Done
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<br>The following additional packages will be installed:
<br> Â guile-2.0-libs libgc1c2 libgsasl7 libkyotocabinet16v5 libmailutils5 libntlm0 mailutils mailutils-common postfix
<br>Suggested packages:
<br> Â mailutils-mh mailutils-doc procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre postfix-lmdb postfix-sqlite sasl2-bin
<br> Â dovecot-common resolvconf postfix-cdb postfix-doc gsmartcontrol smart-notifier
<br>The following NEW packages will be installed:
<br> Â guile-2.0-libs libgc1c2 libgsasl7 libkyotocabinet16v5 libmailutils5 libntlm0 mailutils mailutils-common postfix smartmontools
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<br>Do you want to continue? [Y/n]y<br></span><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace">I guess so. Just wanted to install smartmontools and, by default, came with a bunch of other things that aren't needed.</span></div><div><span style="font-family:monospace"><br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:00 PM Nish Aravamudan <<a href="mailto:nish.aravamudan@gmail.com">nish.aravamudan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi Zack,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 23:22 Zack Coffey <<a href="mailto:clickwir@gmail.com" target="_blank">clickwir@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Installed smartmontools and it required a bunch of other unneeded packages.<div><br></div><div>Example: <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace">guile-2.0-libs libgc1c2 libgsasl7 libkyotocabinet16v5 libmailutils5 libntlm0 mailutils mailutils-common postfix</span></div><span style="font-family:monospace"><br></span><div>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'.</div><div><br></div><div>Can we discuss removing some of these extra packages and make smartmontools a little more streamlined?</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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 <a href="https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/disco/amd64/smartmontools/6.6-1" target="_blank">https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/disco/amd64/smartmontools/6.6-1</a>.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks,</div><div dir="auto">Nish</div></div>
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