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Jarry wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I wanted to emerge "sendmail" (for a few reasons I don't want to |
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> use other MTA), and I see, that it is blocked by "ssmtp". Because |
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> I did not installed it, it must have been emerged as a dependency |
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> of some other package. |
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> Q1: Is it possible to find, which package depends on ssmtp and |
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> caused ssmtp to be emerged? |
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> I want to unmerge ssmtp and emerge sendmail, but I don't want to |
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> break some dependencies on my system. In manual there is BIG WARNING |
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> that portage does not check dependencies when unmerging... |
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If a package needs to send mail it requires that there be a package |
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installed that can do it. If you don't have anything installed this will |
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default to ssmtp. However you *SHOULD* be able to to simply unmerge it, |
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then emerge sendmail and it will work. If you are worried about it |
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breaking things, just try a: |
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emerge -Duvp world |
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If it complains about wanting to install ssmtp again, then there is |
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something explicitly depending on it. However if it is quite happy then |
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it was a dependency on ssmtp, but rather a dependency that there be some |
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way to send mail, and ssmtp is the simplest way to acheive that. While I |
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doubt it, something may also have been linked against ssmtp, you can try |
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a revdep-rebuild after you unmerge it. If there is anything broken it |
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will complain and re-emerge the broken packages so they can be re-linked. |
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Shawn |
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