Re: [gentoo-server] virtual/qmail?

[Luca Longinotti]

Ben Munat wrote:
> I'm sorry, but I'm still confused... sometimes I'm so dense.
>
> In your previous email you said you didn't think I needed to reinstall
> qmail, but here you say just emerge mail-mta/qmail... um, and then you
> say all I need to do is emerge virtual/qmail.
>
> That sounds like two different things to emerge (though I expect it's
> not)... and I already have mail-mta/qmail-1.03-r16 installed.
>
> So,really all I want is to figure out how to make portage NOT tell me I
> need to install virtual/qmail-1.03... how do I do that?

But you _must_ actually install virtual/qmail-1.03 so that Portage will
stop complaining. Basically it goes like this:
recently, with GLEP37, virtuals were also made available as packages.
Before that there only was a virtuals file that specified what are the
possible packages that satisfy a virtual, and a package could actually
say "I am good for that virtual!" by using the PROVIDE line in the
ebuild, NOW with GLEP37 it was also added that a virtual can be a
package like any other, it just resides in the virtual/ category
(/usr/portage/virtual/). virtual/qmail is one of those, so Portage sees
it as a "real package", but it does nothing in itself, it just makes
sure you have SOMETHING installed that satisfies the requirement of
virtual/qmail, wich in your case is mail-mta/qmail, which you already
have installed on your system. So you don't have to reinstall
mail-mta/qmail (you already have it), and to make Portage stop
complaining, just emerge virtual/qmail as Portage wants.

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