[Gllug] A little OT: On the limits of VLANs

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Bruce Richardson wrote:
>> Apropos of very little, is there a distro where smartmontools _doesn't_
>> have postfix as a dependency? 
>>     
>
> Postfix isn't a direct dependency on Debian or the Debian-derived
> distributions that I'm aware of.  mailx is a "recommended" dependency,
> which in turn depends on an MTA.  You can stop it being installed by
> either passing --no-install-recommends to apt-get as a parameter or
> setting APT::Install-Recommends to 0 in apt.conf (which will stop it for
> all packages and I believe aptitude also pays attention to that
> setting).
>
> Alternatively, you could install one of the lightweight packages which
> don't provide a full mail daemon but a simple sendmail drop-in which can
> only deliver to a smart hub (esmtp, msmtp, nullmailer etc).  On Debian
> and it's clones, those provide mail-transport-agent and satisfy the
> recommended dependency.
>
>   

Thanks Bruce , that's really helpful to know.

Cheers,

Roger.
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