Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 223807
mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.i386.rpm depends on /usr/sbin/sendmail instead of smtpdaemon
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:53 EST
Description of problem: As of mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.i386.rpm a dependency is changed from smtpdaemon to /usr/sbin/sendmail Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always: install mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.i386.rpm Steps to Reproduce: 1. rpm -qip --requires mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6.i386.rpm 2. rpm -qip --requires mutt-1.4.2.2-4.fc6.i386.rpm Actual results: 1: /usr/sbin/sendmail 2: smtpdaemon Expected results: smtpdaemon Additional info: the smtpdaemon dependency was there to have a generic dependency, this breaks installation where an mta is beeing used which does not provide /usr/sbin/sendmail.
Which mta that would be? mutt doesn't connect to a smtp daemon, it uses /usr/sbin/sendmail.
Well, any mta for all I care. Better still is to have no dependency on any mta at all since it is configurable, but since there is one I would rather have a generic depedency rather than this specific one /usr/sbin/sendmail.
The dependency is more general, all packages in Core + Extras that provide smtpdaemon provide also /usr/sbin/sendmail. mutt-1.4.2.2-5.fc6 doesn't require a smtp deamon, so you can have only esmtp installed.
Ah, I was not amaware of this package, thank you for pointing this out to me.