On 06-Sep-13 17:32, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
On 09/06/2013 11:23 AM, Jarry wrote:
It wasn't part of @system before, you just removed the thing that pulled
it in.
No I did not. mail-mta/ssmtp was part of stage3. And I did not
remove now any "thing" that pulled it in. All I did was
"emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse world".
As a result, python-exec, python-argparse and libxml2 were
reinstalled and automake-wrapper, gtk-doc-am, eselect and
linux-header updated. Nothing else.
After that I did "emerge --depclean" and the above mentioned
packages were suddenly removed...
It could be that a package's deps were updated to no longer include
virtual/mta. But it was never part of @system, you can check for yourself:
http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/profiles/base/packages?view=log
Then something got broken because I have packages installed
that need mailer (i.e. app-admin/monit or sys-fs/mdadm are
configured to send emails). And these packages do not have
"mail" use-flag, because their maintainers apparently expect
standard *nix mailer (/usr/bin/sendmail) exists on the system...
So now I have "stable" system, updated to the latest level,
where a lot of things suddenly do not work. This should *never*
happen! If it was some package's dep that caused it, it's clear
this change was premature...
Jarry
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