diff --git a/virtual/mailx/mailx-4.ebuild b/virtual/mailx/mailx-4.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+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[clients]
+	mail-client/mailx
+	mail-client/s-nail
+	)"