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From: "Robin H.Johnson" <robbat2@g.o>
To: Brad Laue <brad@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] virtual/imap brain damage?
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:30:09
Message-Id: 20030722223007.GB23878@cherenkov.orbis-terrarum.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] virtual/imap brain damage? by Brad Laue
1 On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 01:54:23PM -0400, Brad Laue wrote:
2 > While running emerge -up world on a server of mine I noticed a conflict
3 > between imap-uw and the c-client ebuilds, both of which, I reasoned,
4 > would be satisfied with a virtual/imap virtual.
5 > Point 2 Is important, it solves a blocker issue with mod_php at the moment.
6 The blocker showed up because virtual/imap-c-client was implemented
7 and old installs of uw-imap did not provide that virtual. If you _want_
8 to use uw-imap, just re-emerge it from source and all will be good. If
9 you don't want it (eg you just want IMAP support in mod_php), then
10 unmerge uw-imap.
11
12 > I browsed through /etc/make.profile/virtuals to make sure there wasn't
13 > one, and found this:
14 >
15 > virtual/imapUW net-mail/uw-imap
16 > virtual/imapd net-mail/courier-imap
17 > virtual/imap-c-client net-libs/c-client
18 >
19 > Suggestions:
20 >
21 > 1) uw-imap and courier-imap can go under virtual/imapd
22 These are several other imap servers already provide virtual/imapd.
23
24 > 2) c-client and uw-imap can go under virtual/imap-c-client.
25 c-client, uw-imap and vimap ALREADY provide virtual/imap-c-client
26
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