On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:07:48 +0100, Tore Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >* 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. > > 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/.
If people change the configuration, they will have to bear with breakage this has caused. I would consider it a feature to have mailman work immediately after installation on a default system, and the exim4 configuration scheme has explicitly invented with that possibility in mind. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834
