On Sun, 13 Dec 2015 15:13:22 -0800, Ian Zimmerman <itz@???>
wrote:
>On 2015-12-13 20:58 +0000, Jasen Betts wrote:
>> One big advantage of split config is that when exim is upgraded by
>> debian your changes will persist while the stock config files are
>> updated. saving you from crawling through a 2000 line config file.
>> duplicating all the edits.
>
>How so? When I keep my own exim4.conf, it is _never_ touched by
>upgrades, simply because the package doesn't contain the file at all.
So, updates done in the package are not even offered to you. This
might be an advantage for the exim veteran who knows everything to the
heart, but the vast majoriy of users would _want_ updates to the
default configuration to be offered to them.
Greetings
Marc
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