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

On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 09:34:42AM +0000, Dave Restall - System Administrator,,, wrote:
> Hi,
>
> this seems to be getting a bit religious; perhaps it is time to stand
> back and take a deep breath.
>
> > There was no reason to recompile from source. The standard Debian
> > packages work fine with a hand-rolled config.
>
> ROTFL
>
> I have used Debian pretty much since its inception but am now moving
> away from it to Gentoo simply because of attitudes like those seen on
> this list. Debian seems to be more arrogant than the other distros.

Erm, this was supposed to be you calming things down? All I said was
that the standard Debian exim4 packages work perfectly well with
hand-rolled configs, so why recompile? There are a few specialist cases
where they wouldn't suit but in most other situations there's simply no
need.

--
Bruce

I am now a little wary of bananas.