On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 11:15:04PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote > Fortunately, I do emerge -pv... otherwise I wouldn't be able to send > this email, asking what the bleep is going on. I'm trying to do a > regular update on my desktop and laptop. Apparently the update wants to > replace ssmtp with courier on both machines. equery shows courier to be > a dependancy for virtual/mta-0 which is a dependancy for virtual/mta. > > I really don't want/need a full-blown MTA. ssmtp simply pushes email > out the door to my ISP, who takes care of it.
Here's a temporary workaround... [i3][root][~] cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided mail-mta/courier-0.65.2-r1 Definitely fewer packages to be emerged, because courier is not pulling in its dependancies. But I'd still like a better answer. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]>
