[csw-maintainers] thoughts on a dependency

Ben Walton bwalton at opencsw.org
Tue Apr 19 22:28:51 CEST 2011


Excerpts from Peter Bonivart's message of Tue Apr 19 15:05:09 -0400 2011:

Hi Peter,

> I do a similar thing with MailScanner, it supports at least
> Sendmail, Postfix and Exim as MTAs and even though I use Sendmail
> with it I think a Postfix user would be annoyed if it tried to pull
> in Sendmail.  So I don't declare any MTA dependency at all.

Thanks Peter.  I think this is the right path for now.  If I add
alternatives support later, I can make the sub-package specific bits
drag in the right database.

Thanks
-Ben
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