Comment 0 for bug 379882

Binary package hint: mdadm

When upgrading to Jaunty from Intrepid, the mdadm package installed postfix. I can't see why a package that manage software RAID partitions needs a mail transport agent, but what is worse is that my desktop machine is suddenly turned into a mail server. One of the reasons Ubuntu desktop is deemed secure is that it does not run unnecessary services.

The dependency has been introduced in version 2.6.7.1-1ubuntu5; from the changelog:

mdadm (2.6.7.1-1ubuntu5) jaunty; urgency=low

  * Depend on postfix | mail-transport-agent, to ensure we get the
    correct default MTA for Ubuntu.

During the upgrade the postfix configuration was run and although I ticked not to configure, the postfix service was running by default anyway.

I manually uninstalled postfix and mdadm runs perfectly fine. Can this dependency be removed?