Am Sat, 04 May 2013 16:17:01 -0400 schrieb Tanstaafl <[email protected]>:
> On 2013-05-04 3:27 PM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 04/05/2013 18:52, Tanstaafl wrote: > >> Ok, I have msmpt installed and working just fine. > >> > >> Now, all of a sudden, emerge -pvuDN world wants to install mailx. > >> > >> equery depends mailx says rkhunter is pulling it in via virtual/mailx > >> > >> Why isn't this dependency satisfied by the presence of msmtp? > >> > >> And more importantly, how can I fix it without installing mailx? > > > Simplest answer: > > > > It was never done because nobody did it. > > > > Whoever maintains virtual/mailx does so believing they have a decent set > > of implementations available for you to use. There was never any > > guarantee there that all possible satisfiers for virtual/mailx would be > > listed. > > > > File a feature request at b.g.o. if you feel msmtp satsifies virtual/mailx. > > Actually, I'm not really concerned about virtual/mails... > > My question is why does it want to install the full program > 'net-mail/mailx'? That would mean I had two mta's on my system, which > should be a conflict, right? I know if I try to install postfix, it > complains about msmtp as a blocker. I have both postfix and mailx. You'll notice that the category of mailx is mail-client and not mail-mta (or "net-mail", as you wrote). mail-client/mailx is simply a command line email client used for automating the sending and receiving of emails; on my system it is as far as I can tell only used by smartmontools. Unless msmtp also provides {,/usr}/bin/mail there isn't really an issue here. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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