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On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jarry <mr.jarry@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 06-Sep-13 17:32, Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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>> On 09/06/2013 11:23 AM, Jarry wrote: |
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>>>> It wasn't part of @system before, you just removed the thing that pulled |
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>>>> it in. |
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>>> No I did not. mail-mta/ssmtp was part of stage3. And I did not |
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>>> remove now any "thing" that pulled it in. All I did was |
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>>> "emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse world". |
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>>> As a result, python-exec, python-argparse and libxml2 were |
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>>> reinstalled and automake-wrapper, gtk-doc-am, eselect and |
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>>> linux-header updated. Nothing else. |
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>>> After that I did "emerge --depclean" and the above mentioned |
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>>> packages were suddenly removed... |
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>> It could be that a package's deps were updated to no longer include |
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>> virtual/mta. But it was never part of @system, you can check for yourself: |
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>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/packages?view=log |
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> Then something got broken because I have packages installed |
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> that need mailer (i.e. app-admin/monit or sys-fs/mdadm are |
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> configured to send emails). And these packages do not have |
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> "mail" use-flag, because their maintainers apparently expect |
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> standard *nix mailer (/usr/bin/sendmail) exists on the system... |
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> So now I have "stable" system, updated to the latest level, |
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> where a lot of things suddenly do not work. This should *never* |
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> happen! If it was some package's dep that caused it, it's clear |
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> this change was premature... |
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I think is a bug in the packages. In my system the only package that |
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pulls vitual/mta (and therefore ssmtp) is vixie-cron. |
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Regards. |
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Canek Peláez Valdés |
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Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación |
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Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |