Bugzilla Bug 102098

i had a setup with nbsmtp and tried (unsuccessfully,
repeatedly) to emerge php-4.4.0. the latter exited w/o error; 
while running in strace it complained lacking sendmail.
sendmail was indeed not on my system, reemerging nbsmtp
did not help.

replacing it with the nullmailer fixed the problem
for me. to see what happened so far, see 
Bug 101981.

I did not reemerge nbsmtp and php to verify so far,
but i'll be happy to provide any help needed.

robbat2@gentoo.org helping me coming to this 
conclusion so far suggested i open this bug 
for the 

!! nbsmtp maintainers !! .

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge nbsmtp
2.emerge php
3.

Actual Results:  
emerge php exited w/o error after unpacking the source;
running in strace made it give an error that it 
lacked /usr/sbin/sendmail.
cf Bug 101981 for details

Expected Results:  
install php-4.4.0

this is my emerge info:

Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130,
glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.11.11 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.11.11 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1300MHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium2 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/src/packages"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distcc distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo
ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo
http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi
bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bzlib calendar cdr crypt ctype cups curl
curlwrappers directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd
expat fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gpm
gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java javascript jpeg kde lesstif
libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg
oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcmcia pcre pdflib perl php png pnp posix python
qt quicktime readline recode ruby sdl sndfile sockets source spell spl ssl svga
tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts trusted type1-fonts usb v4l vcd
vorbis win32codecs xml2 xmms xosd xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS

I just tried emerge --pretend nbsmtp,
which seems to be allowed 
even though the nullmailer is there,
while the other way round nbsmtp
blocked both the nullmailer and
sendmail (which were the only mailer
packages I tried).

So It probably boils down to a dependency
problem.

nbsmtp-1.00-r2 is in the tree with a sendmail wrapper.

Thanks for reporting

Cheers,
Ferdy