Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Dale. > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:03:52 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Maybe qmail needs a USE flag to pull in daemontools? > I'm actually using s/qmail, tarball direct from its maintainer, since > there's no ebuild for it. Originally, I had daemontools from the same > place, until I discovered there was an ebuild for it. > >
Ahhh. That could be a issue when filing a bug. When using something without the package manager installing it, it usually leaves you on your own. The easiest thing may be to just add daemontools to your world file and leave it at that. The maintainer may have another solution but I'm suspecting not. Another option, create a ebuild for your mail program and put it in your overlay. Then you can use emerge to install your mail program so that emerge knows the dependencies it needs, including daemontools. As it is, it doesn't even know you have the mail program there. Sort of hard for emerge/portage to know you need a tool kept around. A ebuild for it and using emerge to install it would fix that. Maybe a USE flag or just a plain hard requirement for daemontools. Just a thought. Someone else may have a better hammer to fix this problem. Dale :-) :-)
