Excerpts from Mathieu Mitchell's message of Wed Apr 27 02:07:36 UTC 2011:
> > When mdadm is installed from the CD during install or upgrade, it does
> not pull in any MTA, only when it is manually added later.
>
> I have to disagree with you there. If I install mdadm during the installation postfix gets pulled in. I can easily reproduce it (see my earlier post).
> However, if the behavior would be "install postfix if manually installed", that would be great for all cases I guess.
I should be more clear. When mdadm is installed to support software
RAID configured during installation, it does not pull in postfix. If
it is manually selected then it will still install with the recommended
packages.
Excerpts from Mathieu Mitchell's message of Wed Apr 27 02:07:36 UTC 2011:
> > When mdadm is installed from the CD during install or upgrade, it does
> not pull in any MTA, only when it is manually added later.
>
> I have to disagree with you there. If I install mdadm during the installation postfix gets pulled in. I can easily reproduce it (see my earlier post).
> However, if the behavior would be "install postfix if manually installed", that would be great for all cases I guess.
I should be more clear. When mdadm is installed to support software
RAID configured during installation, it does not pull in postfix. If
it is manually selected then it will still install with the recommended
packages.