Hello, On Tue, 07 Nov 2006, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:34:14PM +0100, Sz?kelyi Szabolcs wrote: > > can anyone tell why ftpds do conflict with each other and why httpds do > > not? > > Actually the httpds should conflict too as they install listeners on > 0.0.0.0:80. > > E.g.: With no httpd installed, install the apache package, apache will > listen on 0.0.0.0:80; now install the thttpd package, it'll work fine, > but no thttpd daemon will run afterwards, because it fails to bind to > 0.0.0.0:80, see syslog; reboot the machine, and you'll be surprised to > see the thttpd daemon run, and not apache, because thttpd gets started > first. > > I still think this will fix such problems just fine: > > > >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/08/msg01314.html
I notice that the maintainer of msmtp has taken the route suggested
by Gerrit Pape. (Note the package "msmtp-mta").
Another option is the one taken by {x,g,k}dm. There is an
"alternatives"-style setting that chooses the server one wants to run
by default.
One advantage of the former method is that you do not need to
co-ordinate this with other maintainers of similar servers.
One advantage of the latter method is that the users do not get
confused by "one-more-package".
Regards,
Kapil.
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