On 2013-12-16 13:19,
kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
> I need to install Postfix and courier-smtp in Debian.
> If I install Postfix, Debian removes courier-smtp.
> If I install courier-smtp, Debian removes Postfix.
> Does anybody know how to explain to the F$#%ING package
> manager that I want to install both?
Two MTAs at the same time? What are you trying to accomplish?
I would guess that Debian's package manager is only allowing one MTA at
a time because both packages provide files that have the same names. On
this Gentoo box, postfix provides /usr/sbin/sendmail , and so does
mail-mta/courier. The ebuild files for mail-mta/courier have all the
other MTAs listed as "cannot be installed at the same time as courier".
It is of course possible and easy to install courier-imap and postfix at
the same time, and that setup's been working quite well for me for the
last 6 months.
I suppose you could build one of the MTAs from source and install it in
/usr/local/ . No collisions would happen then. But I still want to
know what you're trying to accomplish and how LFS manages to handle the
inevitable /usr/bin/sendmail name collision.
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