Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 16:51:43 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Subject: Re: rc.conf and linux=yes Message-ID: <XFMail.990110165143.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <19990109022455.A12911@catkin.nothing-going-on.org>
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On 09-Jan-99 Nik Clayton wrote: > On Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 05:17:12PM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> Hmmm. Urk. You're right, of course, but now I'm even more loath to >> give the essential idea up. Perhaps a knob in the installation >> instead which does both the rc.conf tweak and the pkg_add. Yes, >> that's the ticket. OK, we can turn it back off by default again. :-) > If an rc.conf tweak and a pkg_add is so trivial to do at sysinstall time, > could we have another one that says "I'd rather have PostFix installed > instead of Sendmail please" that does the right thing? Assuming, of > course, that PostFix was ported instead of pulled in to contrib/. > > Granted, this won't fix the "PostFix should be rebuilt by 'make world' > the same way that sendmail is" problem, but the linux libs aren't updated > either, and they seem to be a fairly essential part of the sytem :-) Well, I won't go into the debate of PostFix vs SendMail vs QMail vs CannedSpam vs IDunno, but I think we need to define something once and for all, because I see way too many contradictions in my opinion. At one side we are modularising everything (CAM, A*D (the IDE layer), new syscons, VM, ports) and at the other side we are pulling more proprietary stuff in contrib. Given the fact that we have a workable package solution I do not see the relevance of not putting those mailers or other relevant software in ports and mayhaps make a special menu item for them in sysinstall. Heck, I'd even help out once I figure out the how and why ;) Given the fact that FreeBSD will be used more and more as a replacement of Windows 95 for some users, they will not require a MTA to be present at default install... --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven A veil of smoke is what I am, asmodai(at)wxs.nl I wait and I wait... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; BSD & picoBSD: The Power to Serve <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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