From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 27 8:11:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (phoenix.welearn.com.au [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C196C37B63D for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2000 08:11:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA26202; Fri, 28 Apr 2000 01:10:51 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 01:10:47 +1000 From: Jonathan Michaels To: Robert Withrow Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail missing? Message-ID: <20000428011040.A26139@phoenix.welearn.com.au> Reply-To: jon@seaholm.caamora.com.au Mail-Followup-To: Robert Withrow , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <002c01bfafe6$87c47000$020aa8c0@aims.private> <200004271251.IAA75352@pobox.rwwa.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <200004271251.IAA75352@pobox.rwwa.com>; from Robert Withrow on Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 08:44:10AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 08:44:10AM -0400, Robert Withrow wrote: > > chris@aims.com.au said: > :-This does require that NO_SENDMAIL should be set to true in /etc/ > :-make.conf to avoid clobbering the newer version of sendmail if > :-performing a make world. > What I had in mind is that the install program, would install these things > much like it installs Linux compatibility now. This would give you the > best of both worlds: a complete and functional system at installation time, > and easy and modular update-ability/upgrade-ability in the future. yup and from the outside looking it i appears to have teh potential of taking some of teh 'ifs,ands,ors,buts' out of an installation from the point of view of someone new to freebsd. well sorta, makes it easier when everyting is out in teh open and one dosen't need to drege the rc.* and or make* and or blah* someting like that. sorry, i'm not a 'real programmer', i don't understand dilbert. > Just an idea. sounds like a reasonable one to me regards jonathan -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message