net-mail/mailutils can satisfy the dependency for virtual/mailx but, to do so, the clients USE flag needs to be active, otherwise the mail utility is never built nor installed. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. USE="-clients" emerge -vp virtual/mailx net-mail/mailutils Actual Results: mailutils provides virtual/mailx Expected Results: mailutils does not satisfy virtual/mailx
This virtual has no maintainer, so I would suggest you just commit he necessary update yourself.
(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #1) > This virtual has no maintainer, so I would suggest you just commit he > necessary update yourself. If I had finished the quizzes to access the tree I would have done so. I'll try to prepare a patch and PR tomorrow.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=afe4f955fc2af63d4b3bd0087fa9159946d05bac commit afe4f955fc2af63d4b3bd0087fa9159946d05bac Author: Eray Aslan <eras@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2022-04-19 11:36:43 +0000 Commit: Eray Aslan <eras@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2022-04-19 11:37:15 +0000 virtual/mailx: clients USE flag is mandatory for mailutils Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/818994 Signed-off-by: Eray Aslan <eras@gentoo.org> virtual/mailx/mailx-4.ebuild | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
