Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:11:16 -0400 From: Walter Venable <weaseal@gmail.com> To: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> Cc: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com>, pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, utisoft@gmail.com Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? Message-ID: <8dfae1c10910280611p80b4387na1af211503c952bc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4AE7D9F3.6030804@bah.homeip.net> References: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> <b79ecaef0910270216q14421922w4acf62103322c16a@mail.gmail.com> <20091027142502.Q91143@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <b79ecaef0910271341y1aea61a6pd7bcd6c96855da64@mail.gmail.com> <20091027191626.T92033@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <57d710000910271741p7429d4feh150ecbe6cddd3d2e@mail.gmail.com> <20091027202430.X92294@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <87d448wamy.fsf@kobe.laptop> <20091027234600.A93064@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <4AE7D9F3.6030804@bah.homeip.net>
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 1:43 AM, Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> wrote= : > > > Lars Eighner said the following on 2009-10-28 05:46: >> >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner >>> <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting >>>> language to configure it. =A0Other than personal profit I cannot see w= hy >>>> people are clinging like grim death to something this fubar. =A0Really= , >>>> let's go past this one more time: >>>> >>>> "Sure, sendmail.cf is hard to work with so the solution is you learn >>>> m4!" >>>> >>>> Did you look at the link he offered? =A0How helpful is that? >>>> >>>> Beside which, m4 is a PORT. =A0So if sendmail is not configurable >>>> without a port, why isn't it a port? >>> >>> Can we go back to our regular hacking, please? =A0m4 is not a port: >>> >>> =A0$ which m4 >>> =A0/usr/bin/m4 >> >> I wonder how that happened, > > Too much alcohol? Really? See /usr/src/usr.bin/m4/Makefile
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