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On Tuesday 06 March 2007 12:34:01 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: |
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> What's going on here is that qmail depends on queue-fix which post-depends |
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> on virtual/qmail (a new style virtual) whose default provider is netqmail. |
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> netqmail blocks qmail which hence reverse blocks netqmail. ;) |
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> Clearly the portage resolver is being retarded by not realizing that qmail |
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> is an alternate provider for virtual/qmail. Still I have to ask why you |
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> don't just emerge virtual/qmail and be satisfied with netqmail? After all |
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> it is supposed to replace qmail... The alternative appears to be to file a |
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> bug against portage. |
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Thinking about this one more time such a bug would probably be duped against |
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bug #1343. If you really want mail-mta/qmail you simply need to put |
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mail-mta/netqmail in /etc/portage/package.mask to help the resolver. |
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Bo Andresen |
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