[gentoo-dev] ssmtp forced?

[gentoo-dev] ssmtp forced?

[Bjarke Sørensen]

Hi!

I have qmail ad my virtual/mta, but when I do a

emerge update --world --pretend

[ebuild N  ] net-mail/ssmtp-2.38.14-r1 to /

As far I can tell from the qmail build it should PROVIDE virtual/mta, so
that's not the reason my ssmtp wanting to install.

Does anyone have any idea?


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Re: [gentoo-dev] ssmtp forced?

[Jared H. Hudson]

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Yes. Your /etc/make.profile/virtuals file contains a line virtual/mta 
net-mail/ssmtp

Change that line to say net-mail/qmail instead.

DEVELOPERS: It would be nice if /etc/make.profile/virtuals has either a 
system where people could + / - exceptions to it, similar to how 
/etc/make.conf and the USE line works now. As it is, everytime I do a 
emerge --clean rynsc I have to edit /etc/make.profile/packages to make 
my changes and /etc/make.profile/virtuals

Granted I could sever the symbolic link from /etc/make.profile to the 
directory in /usr/portage/profiles/<dir>, but then I wouldn't get 
updates that apply to it. Just something to think about.

-Jared H.

Bjarke Sørensen wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I have qmail ad my virtual/mta, but when I do a
> 
> emerge update --world --pretend
> 
> [ebuild N  ] net-mail/ssmtp-2.38.14-r1 to /
> 
> As far I can tell from the qmail build it should PROVIDE virtual/mta, so
> that's not the reason my ssmtp wanting to install.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea?
> 
> 
> 


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Re: [gentoo-dev] ssmtp forced?

[Bjarke Sørensen]

Jared H. Hudson skrev:
> Yes. Your /etc/make.profile/virtuals file contains a line virtual/mta
> net-mail/ssmtp
> Change that line to say net-mail/qmail instead.

Whee! Thanks!

> DEVELOPERS: It would be nice if /etc/make.profile/virtuals has either a
>  system where people could + / - exceptions to it, similar to how
> /etc/make.conf and the USE line works now. As it is, everytime I do a
> emerge --clean rynsc I have to edit /etc/make.profile/packages to make
> my changes and /etc/make.profile/virtuals

Yeah, or stop forcing software, and have people choose it themself.

How about putting it in etc like make.conf?

>> I have qmail ad my virtual/mta, but when I do a
>> emerge update --world --pretend
>> [ebuild N  ] net-mail/ssmtp-2.38.14-r1 to /

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Re: [gentoo-dev] ssmtp forced?

[Grant Goodyear]

> DEVELOPERS: It would be nice if /etc/make.profile/virtuals has either a 
> system where people could + / - exceptions to it, similar to how 
> /etc/make.conf and the USE line works now. As it is, everytime I do a 
> emerge --clean rynsc I have to edit /etc/make.profile/packages to make 
> my changes and /etc/make.profile/virtuals
> 
> Granted I could sever the symbolic link from /etc/make.profile to the 
> directory in /usr/portage/profiles/<dir>, but then I wouldn't get 
> updates that apply to it. Just something to think about.

I think that bug is fixed in the new, but unstable, version of Portage.
I actually thought it was fixed in the stable version, but if not
would you please report a bug?

Thanks!
-g2boojum-