blockers

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Correct, Collins.  Essentially you have to remove the blocking package.  I 
can't remember if Gentoo installs an MTA by default.

Collins Richey wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 19:26:57 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb"
> <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> 
>> A block simply means some other package provides the service this one
>> does and you can not have more than one of them providing the service -
>> like
> 
> All of the lines except 'B' are prereqs that would be installed.  Also,
> qmail will be installed with USE="+ssl" to allow ssl use.
> 
> The 'B' is because the package net-mail/ssmtp is already installed and
> registered as the "virtual (see
> "/usr/portage/profiles/<profilename>/virtuals) that provides mta support,
> so I would need to do the following.
> 
> 2. emerge -C ssmtp - remove the blocking package.
>    emerge qmail
> 
> 3. For more information, search on the gentoo forums or ask your question
> on the IRC channel http://www.freenode.org/ #gentoo.
> 
> HTH,
> 

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