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mysql-dfsg-5.1 package

  1. Bug #370445
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 370445

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Andreas Olsson (andol) wrote : Re: Postfix is dependancy for MySQL Server on server edition

Well, strictly speaking it is indirectly installed as a Recommends. Had it been a hard dependency you wouldn't have been able to remove postfix, without also having your mysql-server-5.1 removed.

What happens is that mysql-server-5.1 recommends mailx, which depends on bsd-mailx, which in turn recommends postfix (or other MTA).

This is a change compared to mysql-server-5.0 where mailx is only Suggested, hence not installed automatically.

I agree that it's not really an expected behavior to have postfix installed when you actually doing an mysql-server install. That said I'm not entirely sure yet if this actually is a bug. Having a minimal MTA (such as send-only) can more or less be considered a must on a standard server.

For now I'll mark this bug as Incomplete, and ask for feedback on it.