On 01/12/10, 00:18:18, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote regarding Re: [csw-maintainers] Alternatives without automatic selection:
> The MTA example is the best here. If I install exim on my systems as > that's what I prefer, something else that drags in sendmail > (hypothetically for some tool it provides that exim doesn't), I think an MTA is a poor example. They are not interchangeable. They can't coexist because of port clashes so interfere. An SMTP service alone is generic enough to be provided by alternative packages but because it's a network service doesn't have to be on the same machine so has no business being a depend of a package anyway. James. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
