Bug 215774
| Summary: | Sendmail lists procmail as a dependancy, rather than vice-versa | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Andrew Macpherson <andrew> |
| Component: | sendmail | Assignee: | Thomas Woerner <twoerner> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2007-01-23 09:31:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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procmail is listed as default local mail delivery, so I think this dependency is right. regards, Florian La Roche The fact that someone mistakenly decides to use procmail does not make it a dependency, this is a straight misconfiguration, contributing to bloat. procmail requires an MTA. Sendmail does not require procmail, and requiring the installation of procmail is a mistake in anything but the most Noddy environment, as only in a Noddy environment would users ever have accounts on a mail server. |
Description of problem: Difficult to remove unwanted procmail, as it is marked as required by sendmail, a self-evidently false dependancy How reproducible: rpm -e procmail Actual results: error: Failed dependencies: procmail is needed by (installed) sendmail Expected results: Silent return Additional info: