Provides: MTA and smtpdaemon?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le lundi 09 avril 2007 à 11:35 -0400, Jesse Keating a écrit :
> On Monday 09 April 2007 11:10:49 Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > Use of the "mta" alternative seems to be in order, but I thought the
> > "correct" way to fix the rest would be to add "Provides: MTA" to sendmail
> > and esmtp, and remove "Provides: smtpdaemon" from ssmtp.  This way the
> > "mta" alternative and "MTA" Provides would be in sync, and only things that
> > actually run SMTP daemons would provide "smtpdaemon".
> 
> Looks more to me like 'MTA' is an accident and should be removed in favor of 
> leaving just "mta".  All things that require 'MTA' should be fixed for 
> just 'mta'.

Things that just depend on /usr/sbin/sendmail should use a file dep
period. They're no that awful we have to hide them behind virtual deps
(which have their own problems, one being no one knows what they stand
for)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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