Why does apt-get want to uninstall MySQL?

I was trying to uninstall exim from my Debian Sarge system since I'm installing qmail. But it tried to uninstall MySQL on me!

I gave up and just left exim in place. Since qmail won't install with apt-get while exim is installed, I ended up installing qmail manually from tarball. (I'm migrating an old machine that uses qmail.)

# apt-get remove exim4-daemon-light
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
at exim4 exim4-daemon-light mailx mutt mysql-server-4.1
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 6 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 36.0MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 29073 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing at ...
Stopping deferred execution scheduler: atd.
Removing mutt ...
Removing mysql-server-4.1 ...
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqlddpkg: error processing mysql-server-4.1 (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script killed by signal (Interrupt)
Stopping MySQL database server: mysqld.
Starting MySQL database server: mysqld
[1]+ Stopped apt-get remove exim4-daemon-light

 

 

 

 

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