Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:25:47 -0500, William Ballard
<nospam_50115@alltel.net> wrote:
>Is the multiple-file configuration logically equivalent to the
>single-file configuration? If you #include'd all the tiny subfiles,
>would the resulting config be identical to the single-file config?
The single file configuration template is generated on package build
time from the same directory that ends up as the source for the
multiple-file configuration. That generation process can be repeated
on demand on the target system (update-exim4.conf.template).
The actual config file is being generated on he target system at run
time either from the single file configuration template or the
multiple-file configuration, depending on the debconf setting.
So I'd say they're pretty much equivalent.
>If so, then what are we really arguing about: they are isomorphic.
>Perhaps a tool could generate the single-file config for easier
>double-checking of the split-file config.
That tool is already there.
Greetings
Marc
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