On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 11:13:38 -0500, Greg Folkert
<greg@???> wrote:
>I would ask that if Andreas and/or Marc could expand on my request, I
>would be very happy about that.
Just for the record: Splitting the exim configuration was mainly an
idea to ease the Debian conffile management which now allows a local
change to a router while still getting updates for transports that
might come with improved default configuration with a later package
version. It is one of the most debated features in the Debian exim 4
packages, and there are numerous ways to get the monolithic
configuration file back. People usually hate the split configuration
when they first see it because it is a rather big change to the way
exim behaves. But it is easier to handle with the infrastructure
Debian has.
The update-exim4.conf script does more than just catting the files
together - it optionally removes comments to keep the config file size
down, it optionally adds comments that show from which file a config
snipped was pulled in, and it does a number of string replacements to
pull in local configuration bits from a file created via the Debian
configuration infrastructure, debconf.
I'd vote against having that functionality in upstream exim since
opening a gazillion of files on each exim invocation is ineffective.
Greetings
Marc
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