Postfix removal - yikes

[Tom H]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:09 AM, Nick Edwards <nick.z.edwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:36 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 2:57 AM, 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.
>
> Hi, thanks but it still offered the same packages to remove.

You're welcome.

Just googled and that both "Apt::AutoRemove::SuggestsImportant" and
"Aptitude::Suggests-Important" are apparently obsolete.

Please try "Aptitude::Keep-Suggests" and/or
"Aptitude::Keep-Recommends" with aptitude (although I'm pretty sure
that mailx is a suggestion).