>This conversation is making me yearn for reposts of FAQ 5.4. I don't
>use Linux. I don't use Redhat - these conversations have made it even
>more clear to me that I never want to use Linux or Redhat.
What EXACTLY prevent you from installing qmail on Linux? Nothing i guess.
> Why would
>anyone want to use a product that placed vendor convenience over
>excellence?
It's not vendor convinience. They have made some rules about security (read
few recent posts about rpm, file comparisions and so on) and they don't
want to break them. But they are not preventing you from using qmail. It's
Linux, it's freedom.
> I run qmail in a non-standard location and it works just
>fine. Dan provides a binary editor to fix uids, and I have used it
>once or twice to schlep binaries between different systems. It would
>seem trivially easy for a competent distributor to adapt to both of
>these conditions. I know I could write an install script that would
>handle this... To blame djb for someone else shipping sendmail
>is, well, it's hysterical.
>
Dan wrote an EXCELLENT mailer, but besides of that he wants it to replace
all the other (insecure) mailers "for the good of humanity". And he will
FAIL if he''ll be acting like now and before and we'll all regret it.
Nobody blames djb for Redhat shipping sendmail, we are just sorry that it
is so close to make them ship qmail but dan do not want to make that small
changes for them (us). that's it.
just my 0.5 cents... and nothing personal.
Kris
-administering qmail and major polish ISP, loving it, but not blindly.
