Bug 364493

Summary:	New-style virtual/mta and optional mta support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED) <zlogene>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hanno, net-mail+disabled, qmail-bugs+disabled, robbat2, vapier
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/virtual/mta
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360305
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-04-22 16:13:04 UTC

mail-mta/msmtp already had an mta USE flag and I'm going to introduce one for bug #289973. The problem is that while virtual/mta allows USE dependencies, a number of packages don't allow that in any of their ebuilds because of EAPI restrictions:

mail-mta/courier
mail-mta/esmtp
mail-mta/exim-4.71 (later versions are fine)
mail-mta/mini-qmail
mail-mta/nbsmtp
mail-mta/netqmail
mail-mta/nullmailer
mail-mta/qmail-ldap

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2019-05-18 10:32:20 UTC

I am pretty sure we have a new-style virtual/mta these days and it's even maintained.

commit bb317bae6e2957383a9d455f46d6a2ae591d0a6b
Author: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org>
Date:   Wed Mar 27 20:01:31 2019 +0300

    virtual/mta: add myself as maintainer

    Signed-off-by: Mikle Kolyada <zlogene@gentoo.org>
    Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.62, Repoman-2.3.11