On 13/06/06, David CHANIAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
i don't know what virtual/qmail is make for, but why the virtual/mta is not provided by virtual/qmail instead of mail-mta/qmail ???
Just to clarify this as well: Firstly, the reason for virtual/qmail is because there are different qmail ebuilds including qmail, qmail-ldap and qmail-mysql. Imagine if another package had mail-mta/qmail as a dependency but you wanted to use qmail-ldap? Having a virtual solves this problem because the such an ebuild can just depend on virtual/qmail. Secondly, saying that virtual/qmail should directly provide virtual/mta doesn't make any sense. Installing virtual/qmail will actually install one of the following packages: * mail-mta/qmail * mail-mta/netqmail * mail-mta/mini-qmail * mail-mta/qmail-ldap * mail-mta/qmail-mysql All of these are real ebuilds and it is these that provide virtual/mta. Cheers, --Kerin -- [email protected] mailing list
