Re: Defining ISP?
Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 11:35:30AM -0400, Darrel O'Pry wrote:
>> Meta-Packages that reflect my deployments would include:
>>
>> Qmail-MX-scanner (options for NFS, local, and qmtp delivery)
>> (vpopmail, djbdns, qmail-scr, qmail-scanner, spamassassin,
>> ClamAV)
>> [...]
>> DNS-primary (djbdns, VegaDNS, mysql)
>> DNS-secondary (djbdns)
>
> both qmail and djbdns are non-free and could never be part of a debian-isp
> meta package.
>
> on a more general note, this highlights exactly why such a meta-package
> wouldn't be very useful anyway. there are many alternative packages which
> provide the essential ISP services (mail, web, dns, database server, etc), and
> everyone has their own preferences, requirements and configuration
> peculiarities. making a one-size-fits-all meta-package just isn't going to
> work.
>
> in any case, it isn't needed. debian is already the perfect ISP distribution.
> just install the base and then apt-get install whatever server packages you
> want for the particular server you are building. pretty nearly every free
> software program that provides ISP-related services is available as a debian
> package.
Something interesting is the differents packages of exim :
exim4-deamon-heavy and exim4-deamon-light. It could be interesting to
have the same things with httpd, dns...
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William - http://flibuste.net
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