[Gllug] Not installing stuff.

[Paul Cupis]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:59:16AM +0100, Avi wrote:
> general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> > Thanks for the suggestion John but I've just written a couple of shims
> > for sendmail and mailx and I'm going to either try what paul suggests
> > - using equivs (or some such) to persuade apt I already have an MTA,
> > and/or what Andy suggests - package my prog as a .deb file.
> 
> There is another lazier option - create a package that doesn't
> actually contain anything, but does tell apt that it provides an MTA,
> and leave your home-brew MTA as is.

That is essentially what the "equivs" package would help one do.


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