On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:39:03AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > > You have an unusual use-case. > yeah, weird use case. 🤓
> > > > Fedora, Centos etc. allow users to install multiple MTAs at the same > > > > multiple MTAs at the same time. > [...] > Don't purge them. Just install each of them in turn. Then the > command to move to the next one is > > apt install MTA-NAME > Looks like stupid to use this command to switch MTA. 🤓 I think the Debian's /etc/alternatives/ method could be applied to MTAs or other similar packages. For example, there's symlink /etc/alternatives/editor => /usr/bin/vim.basic, /usr/bin/emacs ... Similarly the Debian packager could add /etc/alternatives/MTA => /usr/sbin/sendmail.sendmail /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix /usr/sbin/sendmail.exim ... > which shouldn't even incur any network traffic, since you have [...] > > Is this a difficult task? > > Isn't Debian already has a /etc/alternatives/ mechanism? > > You may be the first person to ever ask for such a thing. That > doesn't make it difficult, it just makes it not currently a > feature. > Yeah, I need a weird setting. 😎 > > -- kevin