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When I remove mysql 8.0/mysql 5.7 using this command:

apt-get --purge -y remove mysql*

it also removes exim4-daemon-heavy package. As far as I know exim is not dependent on mysql. So why does it removes exim?

I get the following log on mysql removal:-

The following packages will be REMOVED:
exim4-daemon-heavy* libmysqlclient18* mysql-common* mysql-community-client-core* mysql-community-server-core*

I don't want exim4-daemon-heavy to be removed. How can we achieve this?

Florian Diesch
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jerry11
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apt-get --purge -y remove mysql*

means "Remove any package whose name contains mysq (mysq followed by zero or more l). This includes the MySQL client libs that are needed by exim4-daemon-heavy.

Use

apt-get --purge -y remove 'mysql.*server'

to only remove the MySQL server packages.

Florian Diesch
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