From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QdEOn-0000A3-S8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:35:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5270021C0A5; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 04:33:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 321D621C0A5 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2011 04:33:47 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Av0EAGLwD05MCpL4/2dsb2JhbABSqAF4yG6GNgSXPIcghCw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.65,466,1304308800"; d="scan'208";a="119759932" Received: from 76-10-146-248.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([76.10.146.248]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with SMTP; 03 Jul 2011 00:33:43 -0400 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:36:39 -0400 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2011 00:36:39 -0400 To: Gentoo Users List Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why does update want to replace ssmtp with courier? Message-ID: <20110703043639.GA9286@waltdnes.org> References: <20110703031504.GA6678@waltdnes.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110703031504.GA6678@waltdnes.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5110f65e5db81452b82d7ece715aa3e4 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