Inconvenient Package Dependency for mutt

[Ahmed El-Mahmoudy]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:59:25AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Casper Thomsen <caspert at math.aau.dk> writes:
> 
> > I've figured out that mutt depends on postfix. As mutt is just a MUA  
> > (no more, no less), some kind of MTA is needed, right. However, there  
> > exists lots of MTAs. For instance, I don't want postfix, I want MSMTP.
> 
> siretart at faui44a:~ $ apt-cache show mutt
> [...]
> Provides: mail-reader, imap-client
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libdb4.4, libgnutls13 (>= 1.5.3-0), libgpg-error0 (>= 1.4), libgpgme11 (>= 1.0.1), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-5), libsasl2-2
> Recommends: exim4 | mail-transport-agent, locales, mime-support
> Suggests: urlview, aspell | ispell, gnupg, mixmaster, openssl, ca-certificates
> 
> How do you come to that conclusion? It even prefers exim, but is
> installable with any package providing 'mail-transport-agent'.

I am using Feisty, here's the result of running: apt-cache show mutt:

Package: mutt
Priority: optional
Section: mail
Installed-Size: 4980
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Adeodato Simó <dato at net.com.org.es>>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3
Replaces: mutt-utf8
Provides: mail-reader, imap-client
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1), libdb4.4, libgnutls13 (>= 1.4.0-0), libidn11 (>= 0.5.18), libncursesw5 (>= 5.4-5), libsasl2-2, postfix | mail-transport-agent
Recommends: locales, mime-support
Suggests: urlview, aspell | ispell, gnupg, mixmaster, openssl, ca-certificates
Conflicts: mutt-utf8
Filename: pool/main/m/mutt/mutt_1.5.13-1.1ubuntu3_i386.deb
Size: 1017550
MD5sum: 85d5e273360f19af08806aa825005513
SHA1: f22dc7976d8f985e1eb1348978e0aaf85dd8c041
SHA256: 3419c5e2a67a07344efc1d78719901e55a11cdebbc03d6c74365000e6d88ed35
Description: text-based mailreader supporting MIME, GPG, PGP and threading
 Mutt is a sophisticated text-based Mail User Agent. Some highlights:
 .
  * MIME support (including RFC1522 encoding/decoding of 8-bit message
    headers and UTF-8 support).
  * PGP/MIME support (RFC 2015).
  * Advanced IMAP client supporting SSL encryption and SASL authentication.
  * POP3 support.
  * Mailbox threading (both strict and non-strict).
  * Default keybindings are much like ELM.
  * Keybindings are configurable; Mush and PINE-like ones are provided as
    examples.
  * Handles MMDF, MH and Maildir in addition to regular mbox format.
  * Messages may be (indefinitely) postponed.
  * Colour support.
  * Highly configurable through easy but powerful rc file.
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