I'd delete the ssmtp ebuilds and emerge rsync. Also check /etc/make.profile/virtuals... maybe virtual/mta is set to postfix.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 08:57:23AM -0700, Joel Osburn wrote: > > Marius Mauch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > The problem is that mod_php depends on a virtual/mta package. You have > > postfix installed which provides that package, but you masked the > > current versions (have a look at /usr/portage/net-mail/postfix to see > > all available versions, I think your masking needs to be updated). If > > you would not have postfix installed I think portage would install the > > default virtual/mta (net-mail/ssmtp), but this would be a problem too > as > > it conflicts with postfix. > > I realize that mod_php depends on virtual/mta, but are you saying that > dependencies can ONLY be satisfied by packages in portage, that once a > package is removed from portage, even if it is currently installed, it > will never again fulfill a dependency? I have other packages that > depend on virtual/mta; if postfix suddenly is unable to fulfill the > virtual/mta slot, shouldn't they too be complaining about this? > > If that is true, and since I've masked all versions of postfix in > portage, then why doesn't it attempt to install net-mail/ssmtp? Instead > it dumps the error message I quoted previously, notably saying that "!!! > all ebuilds that could satisfy "virtual/mta" have been masked." > > I'm still searching for the missing link, either in my knowledge or in > the behaviour of this mod_php ebuild. > > -Joel Osburn > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- Tactless "If it wasn't for fog, the world would run at a really crappy framerate." This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
