On Friday 21 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:18:31 +0100, Dan Johansson wrote: > > [ebuild N ] mail-mta/courier-0.58.0 USE="crypt fam ldap nls > > nowebadmin nowebmail -fax -ipv6 -mailwrapper -mysql -norewrite -pam > > -postgres -spell" 6,957 kB [1] > > [ebuild N ] app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.7-r1 USE="bzip2 > > nls -doc -ldap -openct -pcsc-lite (-selinux) -smartcard" 3,526 kB > > [ebuild N ] mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2 USE="ssl -ipv6 -mailwrapper > > -md5sum" 53 kB > > [blocks B ] mail-mta/ssmtp (is blocking mail-mta/courier-0.58.0) > > [blocks B ] mail-mta/courier (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) > > > > What I can't understand is why emerge is trying to emerge ssmtp. I see > > that gnupg-2.0.7-r1 has a RDEPEND on virtual/mta which courier and > > ssmtp PROVIDE. Can someone share som light why emerge doesn't use the > > PROVIDE="virtual/mta virtual/mda virtual/imapd" line in > > courier-0.58.0.ebuild. > > Because at the time gnupg is to emerge, courier is not installed, so it > uses the default mta, which is ssmtp. You could try > > USE="-crypt" emerge courier > > to install it without needing gnupg, then emerge it normally. Then gnupg > will be pulled in, but courier will already satisfy the virtual/mta > dependency.
THANKS, that did it. (:-) -- Dan Johansson, <http://www.dmj.nu> *************************************************** This message is printed on 100% recycled electrons! ***************************************************
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