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maillog: 23/08/2005-18:32:06(+0200): Ralph Seichter types |
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> Georgi Georgiev wrote: |
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> > This, I think, is the *proper* way to work around what I consider |
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> > to be a portage bug. |
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> I'm sorry, but I am too new to the concepts behind Portage to fully |
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> understand your answer to my question. If it was an answer, that is; |
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> I'm not sure about that. ;-) |
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There are multiple packages that provide similar functionality, and this |
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is expressed by virtuals in portage. In your case, it is ssmtp and |
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postfix that both provide the functionality of an MTA (put simply, a |
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/usr/sbin/sendmail symlink) and they both have a "PROVIDE=virtual/mta" |
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in their ebuild. As an example, sudo requires an MTA, but in order not |
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to tie you down to one, it depends on virtual/mta instead of on "either |
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ssmtp or postfix or qmail", and it is up to you, to install your |
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favorite package that provides virtual/mta. |
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Now try to read my previous... well... wanna-be-an-answer :) |
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