On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 02:23:29AM +0800, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> baptista@??? (Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira) writes:
>
> > I'm still forced to use exim 3 because debian unstable isnt supporting
> > exim 4 oficially yet. Thanks, PH
>
> "Forced"?
>
> Why does Debian make so many people afraid of compiling their own code, or
> of using anything other than eximconfig to configure exim, for that matter?
> :(
>
> This is not intended as a flame against Debian, which is doubtless a fine
> distro... but just because there isn't an official package, what stops you
> from compiling exim from source?
>
> You could just build a deb package for yourself if you want to keep things
> cleaner...
And in fact several people, myself included, have made Exim 4 packages
available publicly, which are easy enough to use just by dropping an extra
line into /etc/apt/sources.list...
SRH
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