On Tuesday 08 January 2002 10:23 pm, Craig Dickson wrote: > samba requires logrotate > logrotate requires mailx > mailx requires mail-transport-agent > exim provides mail-transport-agent > > That's why. > > postfix also provides mail-transport-agent, and postfix conflicts with > exim. So if you install postfix, exim will be removed, but since you > will still have a mail-transport-agent, samba, mutt, leafnode, etc. > should not be affected. > > Craig
Ah, I understand now. Is there anyway to examine dependancies without using apt-get install? Dougie
