On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 01:33:41PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote: > How do I convince Debian that I have my own MTA, thank you very much, > and it shouldn't attempt to install one of its own choosing? Is there > a way to permanently fulfill a dependency by hand without installing a > package? I'm not interested in having to tell dselect, dpkg, or apt > to ignore dependencies. I want to tell them that I have fulfilled a > dependency via non-package means, and never be asked about that > dependency again.
Look at the equivs package. You need to produce a dummy package which is called or provides mail-transport-agent. -- Mark Brown mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trying to avoid grumpiness) http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~broonie/ EUFS http://www.eusa.ed.ac.uk/societies/filmsoc/
