77398 2005-01-10 10:44 0000 mail-mta/msmtp misses PROVIDE="virtual/mta" (reopen of 69696) 2005-01-14 07:39:11 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds 2004.3 All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu net-mail@gentoo.org mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu 2005-01-10 10:44:51 0000 (This was originally reported as bug 69696, but it won't let me reopen that one.) The lack of providing virtual/mta seems to have more to do with how the ebuild is setup than actually the functionality of msmtp. That is, it seems that some of the other mtas in mail-mta provide virtual/mta only if the mailwrapper use flag is enabled. And in any case, it just appears to be providing a symlink for sendmail. In that case, then the ebuild should probably be reworked so msmtp works like the others. g2boojum@gentoo.org 2005-01-10 11:38:47 0000 Actually, the reason that msmtp doesn't PROVIDE virtual/mta is that msmtp doesn't provide the /usr/sbin/sendmail interface that many programs (such as cron) expect. Thus, msmtp cannot be used as a dependency for those programs. There's no reason that one couldn't modify msmtp to behave like ssmtp when run via a /usr/sbin/sendmail symlink, but that's not really what msmtp was designed for. mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu 2005-01-10 14:10:53 0000 See http://msmtp.sourceforge.net/ It seems that in version msmtp 1.3.0 and newer, sendmail interface options were added. g2boojum@gentoo.org 2005-01-11 09:11:39 0000 Interesting. Okay, reopening. All yours, slarti! slarti@gentoo.org 2005-01-14 07:39:11 0000 Fixed in CVS, thanks for the report.