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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's
Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 21:27:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5185612C.30109@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51853CD7.2000100@libertytrek.org>

On 04/05/2013 18:52, Tanstaafl wrote:
> Ok, I have msmpt installed and working just fine.
> 
> Now, all of a sudden, emerge -pvuDN world wants to install mailx.
> 
> equery depends mailx says rkhunter is pulling it in via virtual/mailx
> 
> Why isn't this dependency satisfied by the presence of msmtp?
> 
> And more importantly, how can I fix it without installing mailx?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Charles
> 


Simplest answer:

It was never done because nobody did it.

Whoever maintains virtual/mailx does so believing they have a decent set
of implementations available for you to use. There was never any
guarantee there that all possible satisfiers for virtual/mailx would be
listed.

File a feature request at b.g.o. if you feel msmtp satsifies virtual/mailx.


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-04 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-04 16:52 [gentoo-user] alternate mta's Tanstaafl
2013-05-04 19:27 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-05-04 20:17   ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-04 22:01     ` Marc Joliet
2013-05-04 22:15       ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-04 23:46         ` Thanasis
2013-05-05 14:28           ` SOLVED - " Tanstaafl
2013-05-05  9:45         ` Marc Joliet
2013-05-05  9:23     ` Alan McKinnon
2013-05-05 14:35       ` Tanstaafl
2013-05-05 15:46     ` Todd Goodman

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