We now appear to have *four* virtual provides for mail servers: MTA smtpd smtpdaemon server(smtp) This seems a tad excessive. exim and postfix provide all four. sendmail provides MTA, smtpdaemon and server(smtp). Nothing else provides any of them (though if we could just agree on what any of them meant or what they were for, probably esmtp and ssmtp might want to). Nothing requires 'smtpd'. One thing each requires each of the others, just to make things nice and complicated: [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires MTA ratbox-services-0:1.2.1-8.fc19.x86_64 [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires "server(smtp)" sagator-core-0:1.2.3-6.fc19.noarch [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires smtpdaemon vacation-0:1.2.7.1-3.fc19.x86_64 Good lord. Anyone feel like injecting any sanity? Anyone have a long enough memory to know what the hell each of the different provides is meant for? I seem to vaguely recall that 'MTA' and 'smtpdaemon' were meant to express subtly different things, but I can't remember any details. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
