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  1. Bug #465833
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 465833

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Philip Peitsch (philip-peitsch) wrote :

Ok... so basically postfix is pulled in through a rather obtuse set of dependencies.

devscripts depends on bsd-mailx : http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/devscripts
bsd-mailx depends on either postfix or another mail-transport-agent : http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/bsd-mailx

Unfortunately that doesn't make life any easier here as the requirement on devscripts is needed... but unless the user has another mail-transport-agent, it is going to default to postfix.

A quick 20min google hunt has led me to believe postfix is one of the better ones to install anyways.... http://lwn.net/Articles/196724/