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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:10:41
Message-Id: 1309666101.35315.1.camel@localhost.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier? by Walter Dnes
1 On Saturday, July 2 at 23:15 (-0400), Walter Dnes said:
2
3 > Fortunately, I do emerge -pv... otherwise I wouldn't be able to send
4 > this email, asking what the bleep is going on. I'm trying to do a
5 > regular update on my desktop and laptop. Apparently the update wants to
6 > replace ssmtp with courier on both machines. equery shows courier to be
7 > a dependancy for virtual/mta-0 which is a dependancy for virtual/mta.
8 >
9 > I really don't want/need a full-blown MTA. ssmtp simply pushes email
10 > out the door to my ISP, who takes care of it.
11 >
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14 ssmtp has an mta USE flag.. I guess this just made it to stable (has
15 been in testing for a while now). Anyway ssmtp only satisfies
16 virtual/mta with that flag set.
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18 So you should be able to simply set it and remerge ssmtp.

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[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier? Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>