Re: ITP: Debian History

[Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@beer.com>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 10:41:25AM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 1999 at 01:33:04PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > > On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> > > exim has priority: important. The others have priority: extra.
> > > Does this mean exim is "the only proper(tm)"? No.
> > > 
> > > Why would you call apache (or whatever httpd is chosen) "the only proper"
> > > if it is made the only optional one, then?
> > 
> > by default we use [ exim  ] MTA
> > by default we use [ NO    ] httpd
> > feel the difference ?
> 
> Yes: There are more reasons to call exim "the only proper MTA" than
> reasons to call apache or whatever "the only proper httpd". However, I
> have not heard of a great complain about exim being "the only proper MTA".
> 
> Where is the problem?

I do not complain.

     default others
MTA    Imp     Xtr  \
httpd  Opt     Opt  | are ok
ftpd   Opt     Opt  /
httpd  Opt     Xtr  \ are not ok
ftpd   Opt     Xtr  / cause Opt soft should be never the only proper(tm)