Bug 701632

Summary:	dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.27-r2 depends on net-mail/mailbase
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Logan Perkins <logan>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	futurehypoon, jstein, sam
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Logan Perkins 2019-12-01 07:24:12 UTC

cyrus-sasl is an authentication library used both by mail servers and mail clients.  Installing it does not rely on the existence of any particular user (as mailbase would ensure is set up), and it doesn't make sense to add the mail and postmaster users when a machine is set up only with a mail client.  If there is a package which depends on dev-libs/cyrus-sasl which assumes the existence of the mail user accounts or the existence of /var/spool/mail or similar, let that package depend on mailbase instead of forcing it here where it is sometimes not needed.

If there is a reason for dev-libs/cyrus-sasl to know or care about the mail accounts, use a USE flag so that can be disabled.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Hypoon 2021-09-16 00:56:29 UTC

I'm interested in enabling SASL support for ZNC. Why do I need mailbase for that?