Oliver Graf <ograf(a)fga.de&gt; writes: [I must stop talking to myself...] It's sort of a loop: gnus requires rmail requires tm requires gnus,vm,rmail etc. In my eyes the following is a standart install scenario: The user wants a mail-reader, so he selects one of gnus, vm, or rmail. No he also wants support for MIME encoded messages. He finds tm and tries to install it. But RPM (or package-get) will tell him that he also needs rmail and vm, simply because tm also supports them... Regards, Oliver.