On Tuesday 06 March 2007 12:34:01 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > What's going on here is that qmail depends on queue-fix which post-depends > on virtual/qmail (a new style virtual) whose default provider is netqmail. > netqmail blocks qmail which hence reverse blocks netqmail. ;) > > Clearly the portage resolver is being retarded by not realizing that qmail > is an alternate provider for virtual/qmail. Still I have to ask why you > don't just emerge virtual/qmail and be satisfied with netqmail? After all > it is supposed to replace qmail... The alternative appears to be to file a > bug against portage.
Thinking about this one more time such a bug would probably be duped against bug #1343. If you really want mail-mta/qmail you simply need to put mail-mta/netqmail in /etc/portage/package.mask to help the resolver. -- Bo Andresen
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