On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 08:46:01 -0800, Ian Zimmerman <itz@???>
wrote:
>On 2015-12-13 09:42 +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
>>> Maybe, as a first step, you could move from the Debian configuration
>>> infrastructure for exim to a hand edited configuration file.
>
>> Why would one want to do that?
>
>In this particular situation, because most and perhaps all answers the
>OP will get on this list will refer to the bare example configuration.
Whch is perfectly ok with the Debian configuration. Even the comments
in our default configuration are matching the ones in the upstream
default config.
>I appreciate
>the Debian infrastructure very much, and I used it myself for a long
>time. I finally left it for a rather specific reason: I want to keep
>all my configuration in version control and share it among my
>heterogeneous set of hosts. That is harder to do when the information is
>spread in many files, and some of it comes from debconf answers.
I disagree with that, but that's a matter of style.
Greetings
Marc
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