Re: [gentoo-user] PORTAGE_ELOG error

[Alexander Skwar <listen@alexander.skwar.name>]

Neil Bothwick schrieb:
> On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:17:46 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> 
>> I don't know, but it would be a very useful addition - and IMO,
>> they could dump that useless feature, that portage can do SMTP
>> by itself. That's so un-Unix, so Windows-like :(
> 
> Portage doesn't do SMTP by itself, it uses the Python smtplib module.

True.

> Re-using existing software is very unix like

Sending mail with directly speaking SMTP isn't. That's the job
of a MTA.

>> Yes, it would, but I'd actually not suggest to do so. Installing
>> postfix (or any SMTP server, for that matter) just for Portage
>> isn't the right way to go. It's too much code, opening too many
>> potential problems, which can be sidestepped by making
>> portage use /usr/sbin/sendmail instead.
> 
> Why not let portage work with the same SMTP server you use for all other
> mail?

Why make me configure SMTP in two places (MTA and Portage)?

> If your mail client can send mail, why not tell portage to use the
> same route.

Why not make Portage send mail the same way, the MUA
does it - with /usr/sbin/sendmail? That's a standard way
of getting mail off a host.

> There's absolutely no need to use a local MTA if you don't
> already have one.

There's no need to configure the same thing in multiple places.
It's really bad style to make users keep the same configuration
in multiple places.

Alexander Skwar
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