On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Perhaps creating a new package, eg. 'mutt-reader' with no MTA dependency, > > could solve this problem. > > Would the only difference between mutt and mutt-reader be that one > dependency? If so, then it would be better, I think, to simply change > "Depends: mail-transport-agent" to "Recommends: mail-transport-agent" > in the existing mutt package, and not create a new mutt-reader package.
This might cause problems some all the users that simply "apt-get install mutt". If you have a problem with the mail-transport-agent dependency and you know what you are doing it's pretty easy to use /usr/share/doc/equivs/examples/mail-transport-agent.ctl to build a dummy mta package. > Craig cu Adrian
