Mike Cardwell wrote: > I'd like to petition for a change in the default makefile for 4.70 such > that DNSDB is enabled by default. In the comments it says: > > # LOOKUP_DNSDB does *not* refer to general mail routing using the DNS. > # It is for the specialist case of using the DNS as a general database > # facility (not common). > > I agree that using DNSDB is specialist, but I think its usage is common > enough for it to be enabled by default. > > I can't see any disadvantage to it being compiled in... I just compiled > Exim with it, and then again without it and the difference between the > two binaries was a mere 4285 bytes... Most *emails* are bigger than 4285 > bytes these days... > > Does anyone agree/disagree with me strongly? >
Disagree on general principle. Putting seldom-used 'features' into defaults seems harmless a few bytes at a time... And this one-more-small-chunk may or may not affect resources needs. But it means more code to maintain and debug 'forever' - not just document. Note that we've just seen moves to pull perl and such *out* of the defaults. And that 'real' DB's (PostgreSQL, mySQL, et al) need to be optioned IN, not OUT. KISS Exim is not competing with the Linux kernel for bloat. JM2CW Bill -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
