[pfx] Re: help debugging SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found

* Greg Klanderman via Postfix-users <[email protected]> [260404 15:06]:
> Hi Marvin,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.. that matches what I see.
> 
> I had not realized recommends were installed by default.. I was
> wondering how those and suggests differed but hadn't gotten to looking
> it up yet.
> 
> I had not used --no-install-recommends, simply 'apt install postfix'
> and libsasl2-modules was not installed.

[snip]

> The following day, it shows that I ran 'apt upgrade' and libsasl2-2
> was upgraded, but not libsasl2-modules (which appears to have matching
> versioning).
> 
> I have to conclude that libsasl2-2 must have already been installed,
> without libsasl2-modules, when I installed postfix.
> 
> Does that make sense?  Since it was not installing libsasl2-2, the
> recommends: libsasl2-modules was not considered, only the postfix
> package suggests: libsasl2-modules.

Exactly.

> Maybe it would make sense for postfix to directly recommend: rather
> than suggest: libsasl2-modules?

I don't think so, but I'm not sure.  The Debian maintainer would be the
person to decide this.

...Marvin

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