<mail> command missing?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun Dec 18 20:54:30 UTC 2005


Mike Bird wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 13:38, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> You don't break new installations if you require _an_ MTA.  If the
>> depends is "<mail-transport-agent> | postfix" you'll get postfix if you
>> don't
>> already have an MTA that provides mail-transport-agent.  It's not rocket
>> science.
> 
> We're talking about the Ubuntu breakage caused by mailx and postfix
> no longer being installed.  Wizards with time on their hands can
> change *anything* post-install.  

Which part of the "depends" I gave was so hard to understand?  There is no
need to FORCE postfix.
-- 
derek





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