[gentoo-user] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?

[gentoo-user] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?

[Walter Dnes]

  Fortunately, I do emerge -pv... otherwise I wouldn't be able to send
this email, asking what the bleep is going on.  I'm trying to do a
regular update on my desktop and laptop.  Apparently the update wants to
replace ssmtp with courier on both machines.  equery shows courier to be
a dependancy for virtual/mta-0 which is a dependancy for virtual/mta.

  I really don't want/need a full-blown MTA.  ssmtp simply pushes email
out the door to my ISP, who takes care of it.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?

[Albert Hopkins]

On Saturday, July 2 at 23:15 (-0400), Walter Dnes said:

> Fortunately, I do emerge -pv... otherwise I wouldn't be able to send
> this email, asking what the bleep is going on.  I'm trying to do a
> regular update on my desktop and laptop.  Apparently the update wants to
> replace ssmtp with courier on both machines.  equery shows courier to be
> a dependancy for virtual/mta-0 which is a dependancy for virtual/mta.
> 
>   I really don't want/need a full-blown MTA.  ssmtp simply pushes email
> out the door to my ISP, who takes care of it.
> 


ssmtp has an mta USE flag.. I guess this just made it to stable (has
been in testing for a while now).  Anyway ssmtp only satisfies
virtual/mta with that flag set.

So you should be able to simply set it and remerge ssmtp.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?

[Walter Dnes]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 11:15:04PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote
> Fortunately, I do emerge -pv... otherwise I wouldn't be able to send
> this email, asking what the bleep is going on.  I'm trying to do a
> regular update on my desktop and laptop.  Apparently the update wants to
> replace ssmtp with courier on both machines.  equery shows courier to be
> a dependancy for virtual/mta-0 which is a dependancy for virtual/mta.
> 
>   I really don't want/need a full-blown MTA.  ssmtp simply pushes email
> out the door to my ISP, who takes care of it.

  Here's a temporary workaround...

[i3][root][~] cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided 
mail-mta/courier-0.65.2-r1

  Definitely fewer packages to be emerged, because courier is not
pulling in its dependancies.  But I'd still like a better answer.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier?

[Walter Dnes]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 12:08:20AM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote

> ssmtp has an mta USE flag.. I guess this just made it to stable (has
> been in testing for a while now).  Anyway ssmtp only satisfies
> virtual/mta with that flag set.
> 
> So you should be able to simply set it and remerge ssmtp.

  Thanks, that works.

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>