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On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 07:46:47 +0200, François-Xavier CARTON wrote: |
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> I was also surprised to see the installation of a mta in an emerge |
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> update, so I masked virtual/mta to see why this dependency was pulled. |
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> It turns out that app-crypt/gnupg depends on virtual/mta since version |
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> 2.2.6. |
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Yes. This was indeed the package (well, version 2.2.8) whose |
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installation in June pulled in virtual/mta. |
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> Now the question is, why does gpg need a mta? |
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It surely doesn't. This is surely a bug. One can picture a highly |
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secure environment where encrypted email arrives on one box, and is |
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transferred to another, disconnected, box for decryption. Here it is |
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essential that no MTA exists on the box that uses gnupg. |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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