From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 28 04:55:01 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90ED9106566C for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:55:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669108FC1D for ; Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix, from userid 12346) id D01D416B56C; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:55:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.83]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 7FB1E16B58F; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:54:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:46:14 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:46:07 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@debranded.6dollardialup.com To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <87d448wamy.fsf@kobe.laptop> Message-ID: <20091027234600.A93064@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> <200910270916.31033.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <20091027021723.M88213@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <20091027142502.Q91143@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <20091027191626.T92033@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <57d710000910271741p7429d4feh150ecbe6cddd3d2e@mail.gmail.com> <20091027202430.X92294@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> <87d448wamy.fsf@kobe.laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Sanitizer: Anomy and SpamAssassin mail filter - see http://www.6dollardialup.com/support/spaminfo.html Cc: pete wright , Jonathan McKeown , utisoft@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:55:01 -0000 On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:24:38 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote: >> Evidently by making it necessary to learn yet another scripting >> language to configure it. Other than personal profit I cannot see why >> people are clinging like grim death to something this fubar. Really, >> 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? How helpful is that? >> >> Beside which, m4 is a PORT. So if sendmail is not configurable >> without a port, why isn't it a port? > > Can we go back to our regular hacking, please? m4 is not a port: > > $ which m4 > /usr/bin/m4 Evidently my package database is corrupt in some way, because it shows m4 as an installed port. I wonder how that happened, how to fix it, and if it will bite if I leave it alone. -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266