Author: W B Hacker Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Default config in distributions.
David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 19:52 +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote:
>
>>David Woodhouse wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps I should ship the exim package with its existing fairly basic
>>>config (perhaps with some mailman stuff ifdeffed out), and then ship a
>>>_separate_ all-singing, all-dancing exim config package which is capable
>>>of just about everything? And perhaps that package could be based on the
>>>Debian configuration stuff?
>>
>>Opinion: the world doesn't need another Debian. If they want that, they
>>can go there.
>
>
> Yeah, I certainly wouldn't want to have something that baroque as the
> _default_ configuration when Fedora users install Exim. I was wondering
> about an _optional_ package, or library of stuff they can cut and paste,
> or something.
>
Unless you are one of the principal maintainers of the Exim-related debconf /
Cpanel / <other?> speecializations [1], I suspect they would want do it over
anyway so as to maintain consistency and style with the rest. Functionality,
too, one hopes...
