hi all, when i tried to install nagios (~x86 tree) i found a dependency on mailx but with nagios you can choose every kind of notification, and if you want a mail alert you can choose the software to use. Then why force the installation of mailx? I suggest a flag or the installation of ssmtp that is the gentoo default mta. And also for the nrpe and nsca packages. I really don't want them. Let the users decide what they want. The gentoo's way! :-) Regards mepis1 ~ # emerge -va nagios These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-1.4.2 USE="ssl -ipv6 -ldap -mysql -nagios-dns -nagios-game -nagios-ntp -nagios-ping -nagios-ssh -postgres -radius -samba -snmp -ups" 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nagios-nrpe-2.5.1 USE="ssl -command-args" 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nagios-nsca-2.6 0 kB [ebuild N ] mail-client/mailx-support-20030215 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-libs/liblockfile-1.06-r1 0 kB [ebuild N ] mail-client/mailx-8.1.2.20040524-r1 0 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/libpng-1.2.12-r1 USE="-doc" 0 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/jpeg-6b-r7 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nagios-core-2.5 USE="apache2 -debug -noweb -perl" 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nagios-imagepack-1.0 0 kB [ebuild N ] net-analyzer/nagios-2.5 0 kB
(In reply to comment #0) > Then why force the installation of mailx? We don't. It depends on virtual/mailx; if you something else that provides that virtual, it will use it (lika mail-client/nail or net-mail/mailutils). mail-client/mailx is just default for that virtual. > And also for the nrpe and nsca packages. I really don't want them. Let the > users decide what they want. The gentoo's way! :-) So don't use the net-analyzer/nagios metabuild and install only what you need. No point in sticking any use flags there.
> We don't. It depends on virtual/mailx; if you something else that provides that > virtual, it will use it (lika mail-client/nail or net-mail/mailutils). > mail-client/mailx is just default for that virtual. Okay. virtual. I missed that point. But i'm using exim and the dependency is not satisfied. > So don't use the net-analyzer/nagios metabuild and install only what you need. > No point in sticking any use flags there. Oh. Sorry. I'm so addicted to use flags that i forgot to do a simple thing. Thanks for the quick reply and suggestions.
(In reply to comment #2) > > We don't. It depends on virtual/mailx; if you something else that provides that > > virtual, it will use it (lika mail-client/nail or net-mail/mailutils). > > mail-client/mailx is just default for that virtual. > > Okay. virtual. I missed that point. > But i'm using exim and the dependency is not satisfied. Sure. You need something that installs mail binary; MTAs don't :)
> > Okay. virtual. I missed that point. > > But i'm using exim and the dependency is not satisfied. > > Sure. You need something that installs mail binary; MTAs don't :) My english is terrible, i don't explain things clear as i want. (also my italian is terrible, but it's another bug thread) :-) in my notification command i use: echo "$NAGIOS_RELATED_VAR" | exim -f nagios@domain.it $NAGIOS_CONTACT Then, i can rely only on MSA (is the right term?) functionality of exim. I suppose sendmail, postfix, etc. can work in the same way.
Really, i don't want to bother you or costrict to do something... :-) But i'm just curious about this dependency, also because nagios can be used to obsess over to another nagios process without any mail notification... Then, a solution could be to move "virtual/mailx" dependency on "virtual/nagios" instead on the core itself. I'd like to read your comments.
