On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Jan 8, 2008 9:57 AM, Roman Kyrylych wrote:

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Hi!

logrotate-3.7.5-1 no longer depends on mailx (FS#6911) and no other package in Core does. FS#4812 says that mailx should depend on smtp-forwarder as /usr/bin/mail calls /usr/sbin/sendmail. Doing this will bring an interesting situation when a package in Core depends on a virtual package provided by many of packages in Extra. I suggest we remove mailx from Core completely (after logrotate-3.7.5-1 will be signed off), because it's not required there anyway.

I'll +1 this. logrotate fails silently without a mailer installed, so it's not critical to a functional system.

Once logrotate won't depends on mailx anymore, no other packages in the repo (core and extra) will require mailx. Can we simply remove it completely from the repo? Or is it one of these packages that we want to keep in the repo? As I have adopted mailx because it was an orphaned core package, is there anyone who are more interest than me in maintaining this package? -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Jan 8, 2008 11:47 AM, Eric Belanger wrote:

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Once logrotate won't depends on mailx anymore, no other packages in the repo (core and extra) will require mailx. Can we simply remove it completely from the repo? Or is it one of these packages that we want to keep in the repo? As I have adopted mailx because it was an orphaned core package, is there anyone who are more interest than me in maintaining this package?

I *think* it's optional in a few other distros. I don't see why it needs to be part of the base system. Additionally, heirloom mailx is supposed to be better (there's a bug report on it)

I will maintain it if you don't want it. It's one of those apps that I would use if I had to, but don't use otherwise.

OK, it's all yours then. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.