Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 01:19:25 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com> Cc: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org>, "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net>, "attila!" <attila@hun.org>, Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POSTFIX-- Wietse: tweak and go! --pkg & port: both duds Message-ID: <368DD68D.8381D426@softweyr.com> References: <20001009003730.A75DA1C2AB@hun.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010082135450.3469-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> <20001011153441.B27786@dell.dannyland.org> <20001011183950.E38472@jade.chc-chimes.com>
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Bill Fumerola wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 03:34:42PM -0700, dannyman wrote:
>
> > I am a Postfix weenie. I don't care what the "default" MTA that comes with
> > FreeBSD is, but I like that 4.x is better at giving you a choice in the
> > matter. If someone wanted to maintain Postfix in the FreeBSD source tree as
> > an alternative to Sendmail, I don't see what's wrong with that ... same for
> > Qmail and the like. The main objection I would seis that you're then bloating
> > FreeBSD's source tree with every MTA known to man. The answer? Jihad? Or
> > make EVERY MTA an option for the base system? Or just do as has been done for
> > time immemorial and leave Sendmail where it has always been ... :)
>
> For the hundred millionth time, the right way to do all of this is in the
> "everything is a package" approach, which everyone agrees is the right answer,
> but no one has turned out code to do yet.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
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Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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