On Sun, Mar 02, at 06:59 Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote these words on 03/02/08 01:57 CST:
>
> > And just another thing and since we enable Imap, maybe the "--with-ssl"
> > option needs to be enabled by default.
>
> Does the --with-ssl option require any additional packages to be
> installed? If so, then we can't make it a default option.
>
Yes it does need openssl (Gnutls can be used also, but is untested by me).
In a sense Openssl is a de-facto package in BLFS, its so important package
(in my opinion) that if a reconstruction happens in LFS, it certainly has
its place in a base Linux system.
What if I move it to recommended dependencies? Does this solves the
dilemma? Same goes for links and the choice to use Berkeleydb as
backend.
I mean, what's the point to offer broken or incomplete (default)
instructions - I really don't want to do that - and I am explaining my
points one by one:
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote these words on 03/02/08 01:57 CST:
>> And just another thing and since we enable Imap, maybe the
>> "--with-ssl" option needs to be enabled by default.
> Does the --with-ssl option require any additional packages to be
> installed? If so, then we can't make it a default option.
- In this case, almost all of the Imap servers offers a secure
layer (popular gmail service for example), so we can propagandize
it because its a good practice and should be encouraged. We want secure
networks, don't we?
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote
>> enable --enable-hcache by default
> As far as Links goes, I believe the ticket is still open with
> the fact about the graphics option shouldn't be the default, so
> Links will be fixed before the ticket is closed. If it is decided
> that the graphics option can't be dropped, then we'll move Links
> to the Wiki and out of BLFS as it no longer fits in "text based
> browsers" and it is not a graphical browser in the sense that folks
> would expect.
- In this case of links, is useless in text-mode (See the
discussion in the track for details)[1].
So we need to find a solution or a workaround at the worst case, before
moving such a good working package to the wiki.
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote
>> enable --enable-hcache by default
> I would prefer that if it is the default, then BDB is used as
> the backend (it is already available in LFS). Otherwise it should
> not be the default.
- I am repeating mostly myself here from the starting post.
Mutt developers recommends for use either qdbm or gdbm.
Keep in mind that there were (some) reports when using db as a
backend.
But in that case I can be little more flexible and I can enable
hcaching by default and use the Berkeleydb as a backend and we can watch
the support list. If we will receive report(s) then we can change to gdbm.
Is that okey?
1.http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2276
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