Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 19:48:39 -0500 From: "Daniel Goepp" <freebsd@goepp.com> To: "'FreeBSD Questions'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Postfix vs. Sendmail Message-ID: <000001c2b5e6$8567c0b0$6a32a8c0@dpg> In-Reply-To: <447kdiz6f1.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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Lowell Gilbert wrote: >Then do it. If it works, I doubt there will be much trouble getting >it accepted into the system. Well yes, I would love to. However, I'm not sure I have the know how yet. I have plenty of experience in programming, but more db and interface stuff, I also don't have any specific experience with FreeBSD development. Plus, why invent the wheel. CVSup is already written, and the FreeBSD core team has control of the source tree, and what gets installed. If someone can save me some time in searching, where is the source that controls what is installed by FreeBSD? Also, anyone on a first name basis with John Polstra? I have submitted an email to the "comments" address on their web page, but I would be willing to bet it will get swept under the rug. And I'm not sure learning Modula-3 is on my agenda right now either. I do hear what you are saying though. Trust me, I love this environment where so many people run into a blocking point, writes some to fix the problem, and then submit it to share with everyone else, and I would love to contribute in any way I can, with whoever might actually have more knowledge on this matter than I do. But also, these are projects currently in someone else's court right now, and I don't know the players. I realize, as I mentioned in another post, I may well be the only person that really wants this functionality. I welcome comments though about what other people think on the matter, in general or specific terms. Or any information about what future plans there are on modifications to the install process. And if this is not the forum for this, I would appreciate being told where the best place to bring this up would be. I checked the archives on freebsd-config, and it would appear to be a largely dead list. Thanks. Peace. -Daniel -----Original Message----- From: lowell@be-well.no-ip.com [mailto:lowell@be-well.no-ip.com] On Behalf Of Lowell Gilbert Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 9:42 AM To: Daniel Goepp Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Daniel Goepp <freebsd@goepp.com> writes: > So mx1.freebsd.org itself runs Postfix, but yet, sendmail is still so > embedded in FreeBSD that it's almost imposible to get cleaned out. When > are they going to make the FreeBSD install configurable enough to not have > to include sendmail, bind, openssl, etc? I choose to either install these > apps as ports, or not at all. > > Is there a way to break down the install, and just get a bare bare bare > bones install of just base, crypto and man pages, like the install says > it's going to do? I can't imagine this would be too hard to do! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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