Provides: MTA and smtpdaemon?
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Tue Apr 10 19:23:31 UTC 2007
Patrice Dumas (pertusus at free.fr) said:
> esmtp, for example. It provides all the mta alternatives entry, but not
> all the functionalities. However smtpdaemon is better for a mta that
> provides all the functionalities behind the mta alternatives (that is
> send mail, receive mail on the smtp port and deliver mail locally).
AFAIK, the smtpdaemon virtual provide predates mta by a good margin;
it was done to not have a file dep on /usr/sbin/sendmail to be provided
by exim/postfix/sendmail, because at the time RPM didn't handle:
Provides /path/to/file
correctly.
Bill
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