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Bug 364493 - New-style virtual/mta and optional mta support
Summary: New-style virtual/mta and optional mta support
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Mikle Kolyada (RETIRED)
URL: https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/vi...
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Reported: 2011-04-22 16:13 UTC by Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED)
Modified: 2019-05-18 18:30 UTC (History)
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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