Create a package to provide mail-transport-agent.
Either build your exim replacement as a Debian package or use something
like equivs to create a dummy mail-transport-agent package.
Kenny
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 03:05:18PM -0500, Luke Davis wrote:
> I have two odd things going on with apt. I am no expert. Does this look
> normal?
>
> mail1:~# apt-get remove exim
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> apache at exim logrotate mailagent mailx mutt
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 7 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 7702kB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> On another system, I'm getting this:
>
> root at atlas:/etc/apt# apt-get remove exim
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> amanda-common apache at exim logrotate mailx mutt phpmyadmin samba swat
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 10 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 15.3MB will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> Now, I have no desire to remove any of these other packages, and in fact
> can't! All I want to do, is lose exim.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Luke
>
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