On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 8:56 PM Ray O'Donnell <ray@???> wrote:
> On 19/12/2023 17:36, Andrew C Aitchison via Exim-users wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Dec 2023, Odhiambo Washington via Exim-users wrote:
> >
> >> Does this imply that Debian-ists are scared of running anything
> >> outside the aegis of Debian pages?
> >
> > When I was on Red Hat, I found it trivial to build an exim rpm
> > (package) from exim source that integrated nicely with the OS
> > and was compatible with the Red Hat package.
> >
> > Since I moved to Ubuntu I have found this much more difficult
> > (perhaps because Debian/Ubuntu has many more build tools to 'help')
> > and the way the split-config works means that I have
> > to choose to do things eiher the Exim or the Debian way.
> > Switching between the two is not a viable option.
>
> Just curious - what's the Exim way? I've only ever used Exim on Debian,
> so I'm familiar with its split- and non-split config, but that's all.
>
The Exim way is the manual compile vial Local/Makefile. Everything else is
the OS package way.
I use the Exim way in Ubuntu/Debian and TBH, the split config is one thing
I can never touch!
I like the non-split config. If anything, just the .include /path/to/file
is enough for me. The IFDEF/IFNDEF scares me.
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