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

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon Aug 21 15:37:27 UTC 2006


Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:03:55AM -0400, Horst H. von Brand 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.
> 
> Yeah, but where you draw the line is an open question. Should all possible
> functionality of every package be expressed as a hard dependency in the
> absence of soft ones?

Certainly not. Consider for example that many people doing SASL auth 
with sendmail will need cyrus-sasl-md5 and/or cyrus-sasl-plain instead 
of or as well as saslauthd but neither of those are required by sendmail.

Paul.





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