Yum autoupdate sends email to "root" about updates performed. Perhaps
that is the reason it is looking for mailx. It uses mailx in a scripted
mode to create the messages.

{^_^}

On 2011/09/16 02:33, Dennis Schridde wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Line 211 of /etc/cron.daily/yum-autoupdate calls /bin/mail, but yum-
> autoupdate-2-2.noarch does not depend on anything providing that file
> (mailx-12.4-6.el6.x86_64).
>
> This seems like a bug in dependencies, or is there a reason for this?
>
> Kind regards,
> Dennis