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Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2014 14:52:41 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Postfix 2.11 is ready for commit
On 24-Jan-2014 14:41:41 +0400, (GalaxyMaster) wrote:
>> This will allow the postfix package to co-exist with, say,
>> msmtp...
> While I agree with you that the sendmail symlink should be
> provided by a separate package (or even a virtual one), I
> think that making it to be a part of the postfix build
> process is wrong. What we need to do is to implement proper
> 'alternatives' interface, so the user could decide which of
> the MTA packages provide the sendmail interface.
This may be the option... However, I think we don't need this
(yet?), as Owl remains relatively small and free of unresolvable
cross-dependencies.
> Just to be clear, I did the most of the hard lifting to bring
> postfix to the latest available version with all our patches
> applied -- designing and implementing distro strategies is
> currently not on my list of priorities, so feel free to persuade
> the others on this list and implement it once I push my update
> to the repository.
ACK - we could implement that in -owl2 release. Or whenever...
--
Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin <gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru>
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