Re: [exim] Debian as a 'Special Case' for Exim

On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 01:49:10PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> Marc Sherman's suggestion of providing an unadorned Exim configuration
> package would be greatly preferable, not just for us but for competent
> users too. My friend Ian Jackson recently tried installing Debian's exim4
> on his computer at work and rapidly replaced it with Smail because he
> didn't want to battle with the configuration system. Debian's exim4 uses
> *39* files (!), Debian's Smail uses 6, and a normal Exim installation
> would have 2 or 3 (the non-split configuration file being one of Exim's
> early improvements over Smail).

Long-time Debian user puts his hand up in support of this proposal.
Most Debian+Exim users that I know never use the debconf method. They
just choose "manually configured" and put something sensible in.

--
Bruce

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