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-# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=7
-
-DESCRIPTION="Virtual for mail implementations"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos"
-
-RDEPEND="|| (	net-mail/mailutils
-				mail-client/mailx
-				mail-client/s-nail )"