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On 2013-05-04 3:27 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 04/05/2013 18:52, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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>> Ok, I have msmpt installed and working just fine. |
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>> Now, all of a sudden, emerge -pvuDN world wants to install mailx. |
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>> equery depends mailx says rkhunter is pulling it in via virtual/mailx |
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>> Why isn't this dependency satisfied by the presence of msmtp? |
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>> And more importantly, how can I fix it without installing mailx? |
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> Simplest answer: |
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> It was never done because nobody did it. |
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> Whoever maintains virtual/mailx does so believing they have a decent set |
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> of implementations available for you to use. There was never any |
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> guarantee there that all possible satisfiers for virtual/mailx would be |
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> listed. |
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> File a feature request at b.g.o. if you feel msmtp satsifies virtual/mailx. |
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Actually, I'm not really concerned about virtual/mails... |
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My question is why does it want to install the full program |
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'net-mail/mailx'? That would mean I had two mta's on my system, which |
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should be a conflict, right? I know if I try to install postfix, it |
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complains about msmtp as a blocker. |
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