Re: [gentoo-user] No mailer for Gentoo???

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Jarry <mr.jarry@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06-Sep-13 17:32, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>>
>> On 09/06/2013 11:23 AM, Jarry wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It wasn't part of @system before, you just removed the thing that pulled
>>>> it in.
>>>
>>>
>>> No I did not. mail-mta/ssmtp was part of stage3. And I did not
>>> remove now any "thing" that pulled it in. All I did was
>>> "emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse world".
>>>
>>> As a result, python-exec, python-argparse and libxml2 were
>>> reinstalled and automake-wrapper, gtk-doc-am, eselect and
>>> linux-header updated. Nothing else.
>>>
>>> After that I did "emerge --depclean" and the above mentioned
>>> packages were suddenly removed...
>>>
>>
>> It could be that a package's deps were updated to no longer include
>> virtual/mta. But it was never part of @system, you can check for yourself:
>>
>>
>> http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/packages?view=log
>
>
> Then something got broken because I have packages installed
> that need mailer (i.e. app-admin/monit or sys-fs/mdadm are
> configured to send emails). And these packages do not have
> "mail" use-flag, because their maintainers apparently expect
> standard *nix mailer (/usr/bin/sendmail) exists on the system...
>
> So now I have "stable" system, updated to the latest level,
> where a lot of things suddenly do not work. This should *never*
> happen! If it was some package's dep that caused it, it's clear
> this change was premature...

I think is a bug in the packages. In my system the only package that
pulls vitual/mta (and therefore ssmtp) is vixie-cron.

Regards.
-- 
Canek Peláez Valdés
Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México