This would be more of an arguement for a MTA being a priority:required rather than a Depends: on an Extra package. The other question that this begs is: Do these other packages that call sendmail depend on a MTA? Not RECOMMEND, but DEPEND--if not, why the disparity? BTW you're right that a MTA is essential, but I'm doubting that it can be said to be a dependency of a MUA, more like a recommends:
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: > > >What's the harm in having an MTA installed even if you don't use it? It > >doesn't interfere. Actually, a few system tasks depend on having an MTA; > >cron will email you the text output (if any) of your cron jobs, for > >example. I think a unix system without an MTA would be broken. > > > > This is correct. There are lots of programs/scripts that call either > /usr/lib/sendmail or /usr/bin/mail when they want to send an email message. > > I remember seeing somewhere that '/usr/lib/sendmail is the standard place to > look for a sendmail executable' - this is either in the debian policy, or the > file system heirarchy. Either way, it implies that every fully functional > system have a functional /usr/lib/sendmail. > > Carl > Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
