Provides: MTA and smtpdaemon?

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 08/04/07, Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta at iki.fi> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Are the meanings of Provides: MTA and Provides: smtpdaemon documented
> somewhere, or can someone tell with confidence what they mean/imply?
>
> I thought that a Provides: smtpdaemon would mean a service that runs a local
> SMTP service daemon and Provides: MTA something sendmail command line
> compatible that can send mail; filed some bugs, but it appears that there are
> some disagreement over their purposes.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/235594
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/235596
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/188400
>
> Unless they already are, these things should be documented somewhere.  I
> started http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/VilleSkytt%C3%A4/VirtualProvides to
> collect info - feel free to comment and add info and whatever is missing.
>

Relatedly, my proposal for (La)TeX add on package naming talks about
virtual provides for TeX and LaTeX
(http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/TeXNaming).

[OT: The whole tetex/texlive/addons thing seems to have stagnated to
nothing though.]

Jonathan.