[wellylug] OpenOffice 1.1.1

[Sam Cannell]

From the Debian postgresql package changelog (avilable at
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/p/postgresql/postgresql_7.4.2-6/changelog):

postgresql (7.3rel-7) unstable; urgency=low
[...]
  * The installation scripts mail configuration problems and upgrade
    problems to root.  Therefore we need a dependency on mailx which
    provides /usr/bin/mail.   Closes: #172689

The dependancy is listed in the package information for postgresql:

Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4), libcomerr2 (>= 1.33-3), ..., mailx

Dpkg will refuse to remove a package if packages that depend on it are installed, and apt-get and other package managers will all prompt for confirmation before removing other packages to satisfy dependancies.  It's hardly Debian's fault if you don't read the messages. :)

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:45, andrej at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> That's the whole point, though. Postgres DOESN'T require
> a mailer of any kind. Not a transport agent, nor a MUA.
> 
> If you read it's README's, if you follow the ./cofigure
> scripts output, there's NO mention of mailx.
-- 
Sam Cannell <sam at plaz.net.nz>
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