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Re: design issues in debian packages



On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 07:35:26AM +0100, Russell Coker wrote:
> > > Or does that fail for some weird reason?
> >
> > That would hide errors. The proper solution which current packages iirc
> > is to set the MAILTO variable in the crontab to root.
> 
> No!  Programs that mailbomb root are EVIL.

It should definitely send errors to root; the fact there are so many errors
that it would be mailbombing is a separate bug.

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