[DEP-BLOAT] 'sendmail' requires 'cyrus-sasl'

Horst H. von Brand vonbrand at inf.utfsm.cl
Mon Aug 21 15:03:55 UTC 2006


Enrico Scholz <enrico.scholz at informatik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
> the 'sendmail' package has a dependency on '/usr/sbin/saslauthd'
> (cyrus-sasl package).  This daemon is required for certain setups
> only and should not be required therefore.

Sorry, RPM can't handle "might be used for this configuration only" type of
dependencies.
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