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Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org



On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:07:48 +0100, Tore Anderson <tore@linpro.no>
wrote:
>* Tollef Fog Heen
> > It's also a nice way for other packages to update exim's configuration
> > -- I'm considering shipping files for mailman, for instance.  It would
> > be nice if SA did the same and so on.
>
> I would consider it outright evil to change the generated
> configuration the Exim binary use, when you cannot be sure if the user has
> changed other files under conf.d/.

If people change the configuration, they will have to bear with
breakage this has caused. I would consider it a feature to have
mailman work immediately after installation on a default system, and
the exim4 configuration scheme has explicitly invented with that
possibility in mind.

Greetings
Marc

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