Bug 327453 – mail-client/mutt should provide virtual/mailx

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description William Hubbs 2010-07-08 09:22:36 UTC]

I had rkhunter installed on my system, and it was configured correctly
to work with mutt.

The dependencies of rkhunter have been changed now so that it wants to
pull in virtual/mailx.  Mutt does not provide this virtual, so portage
was wanting to pull in mail-client/mailx.

Can mutt be used to satisfy this virtual?

Thanks,

William

[Comment 1 Fabian Groffen 2010-07-08 12:25:43 UTC]

I'm not familiar with the virtual/mailx virtual.  Does it mean a package that can read mbox format from $SPOOL or something?

[Comment 2 Fabian Groffen 2010-07-31 11:12:26 UTC]

if you know what needs to be done, feel free to just apply it to the mutt ebuild.

[Comment 3 Fabian Groffen 2010-08-09 19:41:27 UTC]

I'm about to roll a new version soon, so could you please tell me what needs to be done in order to fix this bug?

[Comment 4 Eray Aslan 2010-08-09 20:03:55 UTC]

While possible, you would have to patch mutt to see how it was called and adjust behaviour accordingly.  Not trivial and we have enough mutt patches already.  I would decline.

[Comment 5 Fabian Groffen 2010-08-09 20:19:40 UTC]

Ok, I see, it should be a drop-in for mail then.  I'm indeed not really looking for more patches for Mutt :/

William: sorry, but I'll close this bug then.  Feel free to reopen or poke me if you feel different about this.