From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130A81381F3 for ; Sat, 4 May 2013 19:27:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8970E084A; Sat, 4 May 2013 19:27:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f179.google.com (mail-we0-f179.google.com [74.125.82.179]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 64085E0838 for ; Sat, 4 May 2013 19:27:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f179.google.com with SMTP id t9so2103060wey.24 for ; Sat, 04 May 2013 12:27:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=GTKQnN3QGwhLtXFywVDtoKbCVHdeOKfwvj7TI4a/rOc=; b=rSwIUQ99C/BSsUxgCFfuV+o9wJuOrRRds7pDhBgNaJOmx0QENXHJi10kd7Q1eKMLEg GQyQDkJKixzVKuJEpmf0OX57bN3Dcl+ejrUKIERqtviOZcrT6ltZdVETgoQuXoVvWylu BQkhwKuOjHEmkb3pgUMUNMu/hg0VrrhSzzH1ia1fAgHTSXUyqwPDowkymJHIEUgUr72J N8NwrVo0l2oFheryJjuxEhTD0ltU28GTG3g27I7G/Ma0sfjLIMzzbHrlcL4koSwJCetn 8aZBgt7vi6RqlaHB4YiEHV3DKhSaE1AWfR5FszgJFUZJz0Y84uTHoB8FzCZKi8QYadMU n7Cw== X-Received: by 10.194.104.102 with SMTP id gd6mr5831504wjb.48.1367695666853; Sat, 04 May 2013 12:27:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-215-205-181.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.205.181]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id ge7sm5020306wib.6.2013.05.04.12.27.44 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sat, 04 May 2013 12:27:45 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5185612C.30109@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 04 May 2013 21:27:40 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130413 Thunderbird/17.0.5 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alternate mta's References: <51853CD7.2000100@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <51853CD7.2000100@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5f36135f-eb00-4d64-8bf9-e4fa69e0e83b X-Archives-Hash: 41e46c8407af54818f9afc18a379cdf6 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