On Sun, Dec 25, 2005 at 11:03:11AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> LaMont Jones wrote:
> Well, saw this and asked myself what 'fuller' means. I don't expect that
> one to be 'fuller', but eventually 'original'.
Ah, ok.
> How about something like
> ># This file contains a small subset of parameters.
> ># Replace this file with /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist
> ># if you need more specific settings
No. Maybe:
# Add settings found in /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist if you need to
# change things. But there's absolutely no reason to copy the whole
# file into place just to add one parm.
> Usability: I used postfix a few times before and know to handle it. On
> Debian it took me half an hour to understand just how to get the
> original main.cf (actually, I didn't. I copied it from elsewhere in the
> end).
Which leads immediately to the question of why you felt you needed the
entire 25KB just to tweak a couple parameters that could have been
appended to the existing main.cf
> Thanks for the agreement.
> Have a look at that preposterous
> /usr/share/doc/postfix/README.Debian
> ...
> except it wouldn't address *any* of the items discussed in here.
8. The upstream main.cf is deliverd as /usr/share/postfix/main.cf.dist,
rather than cluttering /etc/postfix/main.cf with comments.
Unsure why you say "preposterous", though. Those are the significant
differences between upstream and Debian. And I don't see any others
that I consider significant.
lamont
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