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"?
Laziness, or valueing a nice tested system more than the using the
newest latest version of exim.
> 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?
Hello,
It is not about being afraid or not - installing the package relieves
me of _lots_ of work:
- Debian provides security updates
- Debian provides nice upgrades (think of switching from db2 to db3)
- The package is customized for debian: The locking method and
correct path for incoming spool on debian systems is used.
- Debian provides bug tracking.
- Debian provides compiled binaries.
- The Debian package is already tested.
If I did not want this benefits I'd use
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
> You could just build a deb package for yourself if you want to keep things
> cleaner...
If you build _clean_ policy-conform packages there's little to say
against it.
cu andreas
