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From: Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo???
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:54:11
Message-Id: 5229F9FC.8080307@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo??? by Michael Orlitzky
1 On 06-Sep-13 17:32, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
2 > On 09/06/2013 11:23 AM, Jarry wrote:
3 >>>
4 >>> It wasn't part of @system before, you just removed the thing that pulled
5 >>> it in.
6 >>
7 >> No I did not. mail-mta/ssmtp was part of stage3. And I did not
8 >> remove now any "thing" that pulled it in. All I did was
9 >> "emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse world".
10 >>
11 >> As a result, python-exec, python-argparse and libxml2 were
12 >> reinstalled and automake-wrapper, gtk-doc-am, eselect and
13 >> linux-header updated. Nothing else.
14 >>
15 >> After that I did "emerge --depclean" and the above mentioned
16 >> packages were suddenly removed...
17 >>
18 >
19 > It could be that a package's deps were updated to no longer include
20 > virtual/mta. But it was never part of @system, you can check for yourself:
21 >
22 > http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/packages?view=log
23
24 Then something got broken because I have packages installed
25 that need mailer (i.e. app-admin/monit or sys-fs/mdadm are
26 configured to send emails). And these packages do not have
27 "mail" use-flag, because their maintainers apparently expect
28 standard *nix mailer (/usr/bin/sendmail) exists on the system...
29
30 So now I have "stable" system, updated to the latest level,
31 where a lot of things suddenly do not work. This should *never*
32 happen! If it was some package's dep that caused it, it's clear
33 this change was premature...
34
35 Jarry
36
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