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Bug 508306 - virtual/mailx: Missing dependency on virtual/mta
Summary: virtual/mailx: Missing dependency on virtual/mta
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Net-Mail Packages
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Reported: 2014-04-21 09:25 UTC by i.Dark_Templar
Modified: 2014-04-27 05:57 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description i.Dark_Templar 2014-04-21 09:25:16 UTC 
virtual/mailx depends on one of three packages: mail-client/mailx, mail-client/nail, net-mail/mailutils.

Only mail-client/mailx and net-mail/mailutils depend on virtual/mta, while mail-client/nail does not depend on it.

I'd like to either:
1) make virtual/mailx depend on virtual/mta directly
2) make mail-client/nail depend on virtual/mta

Do both these changes may be a good idea too.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Alex Xu (Hello71) 2014-04-21 23:18:02 UTC 
I would conjecture that a hard dependency is not justified because these clients can also read mail on other systems. Assigning anyways.
Comment 2 Eray Aslan gentoo-dev 2014-04-26 11:19:29 UTC 
Agreed.  AFAICS no need for an MTA to read mail.
Comment 3 i.Dark_Templar 2014-04-27 05:57:34 UTC 
Why in this case mailx and mailutils depend on virtual/mta? Is there any need for these packages to depend on virtual/mta?