Postfix removal - yikes

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:57 AM, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> bump
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>>   lsb lsb-core lsb-cxx lsb-desktop lsb-graphics lsb-languages
>> lsb-multimedia lsb-printing mailx postfix
>>
>> I am going to use another non-debian (no repo) mail system so I need to
>> remove postfix, can someone offer hint on how to do this
>> without losing all the other files as well?
>>
>> crazy to remove mailx since a system can send mail without postfix or
>> sendmail, exim, et al.

For mailx you should be able to use "-o
Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant" with apt-get/aptitude.