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From: Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo???
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 15:32:39
Message-Id: 5229F590.1050106@orlitzky.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo??? by Jarry
1 On 09/06/2013 11:23 AM, Jarry wrote:
2 >>
3 >> It wasn't part of @system before, you just removed the thing that pulled
4 >> it in.
5 >
6 > No I did not. mail-mta/ssmtp was part of stage3. And I did not
7 > remove now any "thing" that pulled it in. All I did was
8 > "emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse world".
9 >
10 > As a result, python-exec, python-argparse and libxml2 were
11 > reinstalled and automake-wrapper, gtk-doc-am, eselect and
12 > linux-header updated. Nothing else.
13 >
14 > After that I did "emerge --depclean" and the above mentioned
15 > packages were suddenly removed...
16 >
17
18 It could be that a package's deps were updated to no longer include
19 virtual/mta. But it was never part of @system, you can check for yourself:
20
21 http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/packages?view=log

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Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo??? Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com>