> I'm working on a diskless workstation configuration where I don't want > mailers running on each machine, though users may have access to the > mail spool through nfs. Is it appropriate for apt-get to coerce exim > to be installed when I only need a reader? Is this a problem about > finding the smtp agent?
If you really do not need an smtp agent (note that you might want to get errors mailed to the admin etc.) - just use equiv to create a dummy package providing mail-transport-agent. It's good to enforce such things for most people; if someone really knows that he doesn't need any mailer (there are very small smtp daemons available!) - he'll find out how to "fake" this dependency. See "equiv" package; note that you don't need to install equiv on the client, but just use equiv to create a custom dummy package, and install that empty dummy instead of exim. Greetings, Erich
