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To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
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Daniel C. Sobral writes:
 > And you can do it too with FreeBSD. It requires that you install the
 > source. Sure, it's bigger than what Solaris have, but we offer much
 > more. As I said, we do things different. If you are going to pick on the
 > amount of source code you must install, I'll pick on the ability to
 > rebuild the whole system.

You're definitely vindicating my decision to keep a separate copy of the 
sendmail source tree _outside_ the FreeBSD hierarchy, so I don't have to 
worry about how your install procedures are going to trash my work.

The point here is not whether or not I can rebuild or restore the system
customizations I've made; the point is that doing the FreeBSD update
eliminated an existing customized configuration that was pretty
important.  Fortunately I know enough to be paranoid and keep copies of
things where the OS is not likely to stomp on them.  But frankly I've
seen both Solaris and Digital UNIX do a better job of not wiping out
system customizations during OS updates and patch installs than FreeBSD
did here.


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