Re: [courier-users] Name collision

Sergey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mailutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday 11 February 2019, Lindsay Haisley wrote:

> Those two software packages have a name collision.  They both
> include servers for POP and IMAP, and all four of those daemons
> have generic names.
> 
> mailutils: pop3d imap4d
> Courier:   pop3d imapd
 
> both packaged distributions attempt to create the executable
> file /usr/local/sbin/pop3d. 

Correctly. Why should it be otherwise?

> If one package is already installed, installing the other removes
> the first package. 

You should split mailutils package to subpackages and must not
install mailutils-pop3d, mailutils-imap4d (for example) and other
unneeded.

For example look to subpackages list in ALT Linux:
https://packages.altlinux.org/en/sisyphus/srpms/mailutils

-- 
Regards, Sergey
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