exim vs. exim-tiny (was: RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL)
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On Wednesday 21 August 2002 2:57 pm, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Torsten Landschoff (torsten@debian.org) wrote:
> > Today I was convinced by Stephen Frost that I can just enable SSL support
> > in the OpenLDAP packages I maintain. No problem so far, but:
> >
> > - libldap2 is Priority: important
> > - this change will make it depend on libssl0.9.6
> > - libssl0.9.6 is Priority: standard
>
> [...]
>
> > Any suggestions welcome
>
> Hey all,
>
> I already explained my feelings about this to Torsten but since we're
> moving it to -devel I'll lay out my thoughts here too.
>
> First off, crypto is important to us and I think we tend to feel that
> it is important for our users as well. Thus, I see libssl0.9.6 being
> made Priority: Important as a good option.
>
> If there are too many other issues with making libssl0.9.6 important
> (though it only Depends: on libc and isn't very big?) then I would
> think that we are very concerned about the size and would therefore
> recommend that ldap support be removed from exim or exim be split into
> exim-tiny for Important and exim-big with everything enabled. Of
> course, exim support being modified to be modular would be an
> excellent option but would require a decent amount of work I think.
>
> Not having any exim with support for mysql in Debian has been a
> problem in the past for Debian users that I know.
>
As the main person in #exim on OPN, I've seen several people ask about exim
with mysql or postgres support. There is a bug about having mysql support in
exim in debian. (Wouldn't it be nice to have voting in debbugs?). I realise
that exim does not have the sanest of build systems, but is there any chance
of getting two exim packages built? Maybe the ability to choose a different
patch to enable mysql et al support via a envvar. That way I can instruct
people to rebuild exim.
- --
David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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