On a new system, I uninstalled ssmtp, and then ran the following emerge: # emerge --ask --verbose postfix spampd clamav amavisd-new
All went well, until I tested the mail system, and discovered that /usr/sbin/sendmail was a symlink to /usr/sbin/ssmtp, which I thought I had removed. Checking the emerge log, I saw that, subsequent to postfix being installed, ssmtp was reinstalled, clobbering /usr/sbin/sendmail. Looking through the ebuilds, I saw that amavisd-new requires virtual/mta, which defaults to ssmtp. portage is failing to recognize that ssmtp satisfies a
virtual that another program, installed earlier in the batch job, already satisfies.
Is this a new portage bug, or should I tack a note onto bug #1343?
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