Jim Perrin wrote:
This is an odd dep chain. It would seem that exim requires mysql for some odd reason. mdadm doesn't, but does require that the system have an smtp-daemon, which is a dep satisfied by exim, postfix, or sendmail.
mostly, install sendmail or postfix, and you can then remove exim and mysql without fear.
Wow, that is odd but it worked. Learn something new every day :).
Thanks Jim.
johnn