On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Philip Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:53 AM, Ben Walton <[email protected]> wrote: >> Excerpts from James Lee's message of Wed Feb 16 05:10:26 -0500 2011: >> >>> Recommendation: Tag as incompatible. >> >> I'm ok with this. >> > > I'm not. It breaks our long-standing standards that installing > everything is okay. > > (reminder: if you use autoenable_daemons=no in csw.conf, you can > install everything, but not have any port conflicts, becuase nothing > is started up on any port, except what you explicitly choose to enable > on that specific machine)
Another point why this policy makes sense, even on a relatively small, single-server installation, at a small site: Allowing the multiple types to be installed, even if only one is active at a time, allows the local sysadmin the freedom to do limited trial tests of alternatives implementations. - Start with sendmail? okay. All set up, things looking good (couple of months down the road...) Hmm.. I wonder if postfix would be better? - installs postfix, on SAME BOX, initially on different port. plays around for a few days, gets it happy, and then does an almost transparent switchover when happy with it. Cant do that if postfix conflicts with sendmail. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
