Author: W B Hacker Date: To: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] Default config in distributions.
W B Hacker wrote:
> David Woodhouse wrote:
>
>
>>On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 19:52 +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote:
>>
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>>>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...
>
> Presumptions, all, of course....
>
> ;-)
>
> Bill
>
> [1] There! I DID change that word...
>
SB 'specializations'
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