On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 11:38:39AM +0000, Bonno Bloksma wrote: > Hi, > > My upgraded Jessie machines still have the at command installed by default, > my new Stretch machines do not have it. > I just wanted to install at and noticed it has A LOT of required parts that I > do not understand. Why does it want to install 19 packages like exim4-base > and mysql-common? > Is all of that really necessary to get the at command up and running? Should > some of them maybe get moved over to "Suggested packages"? > The reason for that is is 'at' wants to be able to mail you command output, so it includes this:
Recommends: default-mta | mail-transport-agent The larger than expected list of packages is, I suspect, a result of you not having an MTA installed your system. You can do 'apt-get install --no-install-recommends at' to avoid the extra package, bus if you do not have working local mail delivery or an MTA with a smarthost configured, then you may not get messaged with the output of the jobs you run. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
