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On 13/06/06, David CHANIAL <david.ml@××××××××.fr> wrote: |
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> i don't know what virtual/qmail is make for, but why the virtual/mta is not |
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> provided by virtual/qmail instead of mail-mta/qmail ??? |
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Just to clarify this as well: |
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Firstly, the reason for virtual/qmail is because there are different |
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qmail ebuilds including qmail, qmail-ldap and qmail-mysql. Imagine if |
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another package had mail-mta/qmail as a dependency but you wanted to |
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use qmail-ldap? Having a virtual solves this problem because the such |
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an ebuild can just depend on virtual/qmail. |
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Secondly, saying that virtual/qmail should directly provide |
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virtual/mta doesn't make any sense. Installing virtual/qmail will |
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actually install one of the following packages: |
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* mail-mta/qmail |
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* mail-mta/netqmail |
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* mail-mta/mini-qmail |
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* mail-mta/qmail-ldap |
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* mail-mta/qmail-mysql |
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All of these are real ebuilds and it is these that provide virtual/mta. |
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Cheers, |
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--Kerin |
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