On 2006-02-25 15:22:21 -0800 (Sat, Feb), Ben Munat wrote:
> I have qmail-1.03-r16 installed on my mail server. Portage is saying it 
> wants to install:
> [ebuild  N    ] virtual/qmail-1.03
[...]
> Well in searching through /usr/portage for "virtual/qmail" I find lots of 
> changelog entries saying "changed to virtual/qmail". So, I assume that all 
> the packages depending on qmail have switched to depending on 
> virtual/qmail, right?

Right.

> And I need to reinstall qmail so that it's installed as 
> "virtual/qmail-1.03"? However, why does it say it's a new package?

virtual/qmail is just a new package in category 'virtual'

  ls -la /usr/portage/virtual/

Many, many microseconds ago, the 'virtuals' file in your profile was the
only way to specify virtual packages. Now, the second one emerged.

  vi /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/virtuals
  vi /usr/portage/profiles/base/virtuals

  vi /usr/portage/virtual/qmail/qmail-1.03.ebuild

>  And does that mean that I'll have to unmerge my existing qmail
>  manually?

I humbly believe that you don't need to reinstal qmail.

>  Also, why is is 1.03 instead of 1.03-r16?

They are different packages.

The virtual just states that it needs something that is compatible with
version 1.03 of qmail.

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