On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 21:25:20 -0500, "A. Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> % dlocate -s mail-transport-agent
> The virtual package 'mail-transport-agent' is now installed as the
> actual package 'exim4-daemon-light'.
> Run 'dlocate -s exim4-daemon-light' for more information.
How about then just proceed to display the status of exim4-daemon-light
instead?
I actually liked the wording better in the old proposal:
> % dlocate -s mail-transport-agent
> 'mail-transport-agent' is a virtual package, currently provided by
> 'exim4-daemon-light'.
That's succinct and uses the standard terms for things. Other package
handling tools generally don't put the package names in quotes, so
perhaps dlocate shouldn't either, though.
> Complete list of 'mail-transport-agent' candidates: courier-mta exim
> exim-tls
> exim4-daemon-heavy exim4-daemon-light masqmail nullmailer postfix
> postfix-snap
> sendmail smail ssmtp zmailer zmailer-ssl
The headline here seems a bit verbose IMHO, and it's not completely
obvious (to me at least -- humor me) that "complete list of candidates"
means "here are all the packages which provide this virtual package".
Trying to synthesize into a proposal which uses standard terminology,
how about this:
Packages which provide 'mail-transport-agent':
exim4-daemon-heavy - exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended features,
including exiscan-acl
exim4-daemon-light - lightweight exim MTA (v4) daemon
postfix - A high-performance mail transport agent
courier-mta - Courier Mail Server - ESMTP daemon
esmtp-run - User configurable relay-only MTA
exim - An obsolete MTA (Mail Transport Agent), replaced by exim4
hula-mta - integrated mail & calendar system with simple interface
masqmail - A mailer for hosts without permanent internet connection
nbsmtp - Simple MTA to send your mails to another mail server via
SMTP
nullmailer - simple relay-only mail transport agent
sendmail-bin - powerful, efficient, and scalable Mail Transport
Agent
smail - Electronic mail transport system
ssmtp - extremely simple MTA to get mail off the system to a mail
hub
xmail - advanced, fast and reliable ESMTP/POP3 mail server
zmailer - Mailer for Extreme Performance Demands
(The output, other than the headline, was taken from "apt-cache search
mail-transport-agent" on an Ubuntu box with universe and multiverse; I
guess that explains at least most of the differences against the list
you have, but I also had to cut out some packages which didn't actually
provide mail-transport-agent.)
Actually, it's not even clear why dlocate would need to be able to
generate this list; at a minimum, I would make that a separate option.
(I wanted to remove the quotes around 'mail-transport-agent' here too,
but I left them in after all. Hummm. Maybe keep them around virtual
package names after all?)
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