On 2003-12-02, BDB <noemail@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am trying to understand why GPG would depend on ssmtp. I don't want
> ssmtp on my system. Can I unmerge it after emerging gpg?
>
> # emerge -p gnupg
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild N ] net-mail/ssmtp-2.48
> [ebuild U ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.2.3-r3 [1.2.3-r2]
>
> #

It doesn't, it just depends on virtual/mta, which is satisfied by any
MTA. Your system does need _some_ MTA installed. ssmtp is a very basic
and simplistic psuedo-MTA for handling local mail.

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