Quoth Petr Cech on Wed, Apr 19, 2000:
> Just to end this debate and move on
Well...
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 06:14:15PM +0300 , Vadim Vygonets wrote:
> > It is
> > possible that Debian, in its infinite wisdom, changed the
> > Makefile, or provided their own.
>
> Yup. That is exim in Debian is dynamicly linked with libident and libpcre
> (you know, one finds a bug in the library and doesn't need to recompile every
> program that used it).
This is nice. Usually. But not when you want to upgrade one
package without upgrading the whole system. Which is why many
people who install the old stable Debian distribution just
download the usual source tarball of Exim and compile it the
usual old way.
> Petr Cech
> --
> Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
Vadik, the Debian GNU/Linux ex-maintainer.
> <sgore> "Debian - 3 million penguins can't be wrong."
Nice one! But then, "BSD - 3 million daemons...".
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