Re: Let's write a system admin friendly mail server packaging system
On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:58:26PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe wrote:
> > I'm installing apache2 and have a web server - more or less working,
> > I'm installing dhelp and ... magic, magic ... it extends the running
> > web-server to serve the dhelp content as well. I'm installing smb2www
> > and it extends the running web-server to act as smb client as well.
> > How do they do this? There is some conf.d directory which contains
> > config snippets for each of the packages.
>
> Yes, which feature I requested from the upstream of postfix. I got a
> stunning reply that it was a stupid idea, that it would be slow to
> parse, and that postconf wouldn't work anymore. So forget about having
> this in postfix, we must find another way.
Eh, Debian can patch upstream software if it thinks it is necessary for
inter-operation, that's the one of the major points of having a
distribution.
Michael
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