sudo apt install smartmontools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: guile-2.0-libs libgc1c2 libgsasl7 libkyotocabinet16v5 libmailutils5 libntlm0 mailutils mailutils-common postfix Suggested packages: mailutils-mh mailutils-doc procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre postfix-lmdb postfix-sqlite sasl2-bin dovecot-common resolvconf postfix-cdb postfix-doc gsmartcontrol smart-notifier The following NEW packages will be installed: guile-2.0-libs libgc1c2 libgsasl7 libkyotocabinet16v5 libmailutils5 libntlm0 mailutils mailutils-common postfix smartmontools 0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 5,206 kB of archives. After this operation, 24.9 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]y
I guess so. Just wanted to install smartmontools and, by default, came with a bunch of other things that aren't needed. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 11:00 PM Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Zack, > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2019, 23:22 Zack Coffey <click...@gmail.com wrote: > >> Installed smartmontools and it required a bunch of other unneeded >> packages. >> >> Example: guile-2.0-libs libgc1c2 libgsasl7 libkyotocabinet16v5 >> libmailutils5 libntlm0 mailutils mailutils-common postfix >> >> I don't want or need any mail utilities on every single machine that I >> need smartmontools on. Ok, I might want 'sendemail' at the very least, but >> I certainly do not need 'postfix'. >> >> Can we discuss removing some of these extra packages and make >> smartmontools a little more streamlined? >> > > Are you possibly installing suggests or recommends of smartmontools? In > Disco (and afaict this was true in 16.04 too), none of what you mentioned > are listed as dependencies at > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/disco/amd64/smartmontools/6.6-1. > > Thanks, > Nish >
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