Re: [gentoo-server] help for qmail and virtual/mta

[David CHANIAL]

Thanks for your answer,

> No, it's not a bug.

I known, but i've seen that bug interface is used for others things than bugs. 
thats why i've made this suggest...


> Consider the effective dependency tree - ssmtp is
> the requested package and therefore this is the package that you have
> to "provide".

Yes ssmtp is the requested package, but virtual/mta is the requested 
dependence, no ?

And i would be better to interessest themself to the real need (virtual/mta) 
ans not by the default way to provide virtual/mta (ssmtp)

no ?


> Because qmail is _not_ part of the dependency tree,
> indicating that it's provided is useless. If you wanted to do it by
> specifying qmail then you'd have to do this too:
>
> # echo "virtual/mta mail-mta/qmail" >> /etc/portage/profile/virtuals
>
> By doing that you'd make qmail the default choice for fulfulling
> virtual/mta; you should be able to confirm that by running emerge -ptv
> spamassassin afterwards. Therefore, you could proceed to put
> mail-mta/qmail in package.provided and it should work.

I think this is the better way to answer my problem no ?


> But it would be completely pointless. You'd be overriding a virtual
> for no good reason (you're never going to emerge the virtual anyway)
> and making things more complicated. Specifying ssmtp is a good way :)

i just wan't to understand... is there a probleme to "custom" the virtual to 
the package we prefer use in default case ?

and even if it's effectivly "making things more complicated", this is not 
the "cleanest" way ?

better thant the "easy" way (ssmtp) ?

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