On Wed, Oct 01, 2003, Steffen Weinreich wrote:
>
>--On Mittwoch, Oktober 01, 2003 13:28:14 -0400 Dennis McRitchie
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
>>2) MTA
>>
>>I assume that this is referring to a Mail Transport Agent. If so, I know
>>pine needs an MTA to run; but this is not a dependency in the usual sense
>>of the word. There is no package called MTA, and it is up to the sysadmin
>>and/or user to pick an MTA (sendmail or some other SMTP agent) to use.
>>
>>So why is this listed here? I understand the value of a reminder, but
>>shouldn't there be a way to get pine to build without having to edit the
>>spec file?
>
>MTA is a virtual package and will be provided by ssmtp, postfix or
>sendmail. More about virtual packages are described under
>http://www.openpkg.org/faq.html#package-type
This brings up a topic I've been meaning to address for a while.
The MTA package gets in the way when bootstrapping OpenPKG if one wants to
do the build as a non-root user using ``sudo'' since ``sudo'' depends on
MTA. I've considered writing a placeholder package, say dummyMTA, that
provides MTA (and might make symlinks from the system sendmail to
%{l_prefix}/sbin/sendmail) that would work around this dependency. Adding
``Obsoletes: dummyMTA'' to the real MTAs, postfix, exim, et al, that would
automatically remove dummyMTA when installed.
Bill
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