Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:40:12 +0000 From: Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: "Steven P. Donegan" <donegan@quick.net>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb@FreeBSD.ORG>, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required. Message-ID: <19981231184012.A3517@catkin.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <368BB247.886FB8DA@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 02:20:07AM %2B0900 References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.981231082907.26431F-100000@oldnews.quick.net> <368BB247.886FB8DA@newsguy.com>
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On Fri, Jan 01, 1999 at 02:20:07AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Sigh. I ought to have kept my mouth shut about this. Anyway, it is > *not* being proposed to make Postfix default or removing sendmail. > Though, from what I have heard so far, that is the *LONG TERM* plan. > The idea is putting Postfix on the contrib as a way to make it > further easier to choose Postfix during installation, and thus > "push" Postfix as an alternative. I have no real problem with pushing PostFix as an alternative to Sendmail at installation time. However, I still don't see why it's not being done as a port/package. From the perspective of someone installing FreeBSD, it's just a checkbox they have to select -- they don't care which one is part of the base system and which one is coming from ports. I thought we were slowly moving to a more modularised, package-ised approach to the base system. To me this (PostFix in contrib/, instead of as a port) looks like a retrograde step. N -- C.R.F. Consulting -- we're run to make me richer. . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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