RES Re: Postfix removal - yikes

[Nick Edwards]

RESOLVED

Got an email from debian dev. suggested remove using:
dpkg --ignore-depends mail-transport-agent -r postfix
also gave me instructions for building a dummy package using equivs, this
has got things where I want it and package managers dont complain



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.
>
> nicky
>
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