Ben Munat wrote: > I'm sorry, but I'm still confused... sometimes I'm so dense. > > In your previous email you said you didn't think I needed to reinstall > qmail, but here you say just emerge mail-mta/qmail... um, and then you > say all I need to do is emerge virtual/qmail. > > That sounds like two different things to emerge (though I expect it's > not)... and I already have mail-mta/qmail-1.03-r16 installed. > > So,really all I want is to figure out how to make portage NOT tell me I > need to install virtual/qmail-1.03... how do I do that?
But you _must_ actually install virtual/qmail-1.03 so that Portage will stop complaining. Basically it goes like this: recently, with GLEP37, virtuals were also made available as packages. Before that there only was a virtuals file that specified what are the possible packages that satisfy a virtual, and a package could actually say "I am good for that virtual!" by using the PROVIDE line in the ebuild, NOW with GLEP37 it was also added that a virtual can be a package like any other, it just resides in the virtual/ category (/usr/portage/virtual/). virtual/qmail is one of those, so Portage sees it as a "real package", but it does nothing in itself, it just makes sure you have SOMETHING installed that satisfies the requirement of virtual/qmail, wich in your case is mail-mta/qmail, which you already have installed on your system. So you don't have to reinstall mail-mta/qmail (you already have it), and to make Portage stop complaining, just emerge virtual/qmail as Portage wants. -- Best regards, Luca Longinotti aka CHTEKK LongiTEKK Networks Admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gentoo Dev: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SysCP Dev: [EMAIL PROTECTED] TILUG Supporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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