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



* Tore Anderson 

| * 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.
| 
|   But you'd do it so that the routers/transports you add are disabled by
|  default, right?

No.  If you have exim4 installed and install mailman, it's a
reasonable expectation that you want to use those two together.

| 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/.

It will be documented in NEWS.Debian ifwhen I get around to it.

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Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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