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Re: switching from exim to postfix



On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 07:03:11PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> The 500 packages that would have to change their Depends from "exim4 |
> mta" to something else.

The brokenness of having to have a default package hardcoded in
every virtual dependency rather than having a virtual defaults
package and/or central list is an insanity I wish we could have
fixed years ago.  We should not have global policy WRT virtual
package defaults embedded (inconsistently!) into every single
dependency!


Roger

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