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Andreas Vinsander wrote:
> Tom Martin wrote:
> 
>>It's going to work like this:
>>
>>New revisions of all mailwrapper-enabled packages in Portage (ssmtp,
>>exim, postfix, sendmail, msmtp, etc.) will include support for the new
>>system. Each package will install a file into /etc/mail/, called
>>package-name.mailer. Then, mailer-config is used to switch between
>>profiles in a similar way to gcc-config, motif-config et al.
> 
> 
> This is starting to look a lot like /etc/alternatives a la debian, what
> was the reason for not using that solution from the start (for all
> packages that might have alternatives)?
> Wouldn't that be a more generic solution? (Have to admit I haven't
> looked at debian /etc/alternatives more than over a co-workers shoulder,
> but it seemed appealing)

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/eclectic/

Already in the works.  slarti knows of this, but wanted to get it implemented
now rather than waiting for eclectic to be added to portage.  Btw, ciaranm,
what's the ETA on that?

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