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On 2018-07-21, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> What has happened is that somebody decided to add virtual/mta-1 |
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> surreptitiously to the default software set in Gentoo. This |
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> installs something called nullmailer, which I don't need, didn't ask |
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> for, and fouls up my mail transmission. |
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> nullmailer installs a file /usr/sbin/sendmail. This masks out the |
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> correct /usr/bin/sendmail (which is a symbolic link to s/qmail, |
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> which I installed by hand, not using emerge) because /usr/sbin is |
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> before /usr/bin in $PATH. |
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Manually installing things in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin will often cause |
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problems because Portage assumes that it controls those directories. |
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So don't do that: you should manually install things in /usr/local. |
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Or, install qmail using portage, so that the system knows you have an |
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MTA. If you don't like the default qmail ebuild for some reason, you |
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can use your own. |
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Or, tell Portage you have an MTA by adding an appropriate line to |
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/etc/portage/profie/package.provided. See portage(5). |
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Or, don't use Gentoo if you don't want to do things the way Gentoo |
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does things. |
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> Is this worth a bug report? |
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No. It's not a bug its a user error. There are a half-dozen |
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different ways to do the right thing, but you chose the wrong thing. |
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Grant |
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