Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jun 2005 17:17:11 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: > > >>Ah yes, I remember reading it's not a full-fledged MTA. I was just >>curious as to why it was trying to install. And to answer the first >>reply's question: "The question I have is why would you want to remove >>all MTAs?". Why have something on your system when you don't use it? >>This is a personal server; I have ssh setup, I check the log files >>myself. > > > Do you have a cron daemon installed? They all require an MTA. > >
Yep, that's probably it. I ran into this a while back. Unfortunately equery is unreasonably slow with such queries. The fastest way I've found: find /var/db/pkg -path '*DEPEND' | xargs grep virtual/mta Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
