Re: exim4-config and exim4-base installed on systems with non-exim-MTA
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 03:29:31 +1000, Anthony Towns
<aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
>So, why can't this be done without an exim4-config package in Debian, with
>something like the following arrangement:
>
> exim4-daemon
> provides/conflicts: mail-transport-agent
> postinst:
> checks /etc/exim4
> if it doesn't exist, creates it, using debconf
>
> exim4-config-ilkserver:
> postinst:
> rm -rf /etc/exim4
> create /etc/exim4 according to desired config
That looks like a bad hack.
And it precludes the use of dpkg conffile handling for the config
snippets in /etc/exim4/conf.d
And it doesn't solve the problem at hand, with exim4-base being
installed on non-exim systems by dselect.
Greetings
Marc
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