Re: Frivolous forking

[Peter C. Norton]

On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 10:39:16PM -0000, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> In the package manager, it's supposed to handle package
> installations. Who wants additional code running on their systems when
> you don't need it? Why doesn't RPM provide for a package supplied
> verification tool? Then someone (even DJB) could write such a tool
> that could be exec'ed by RPM. There are a million solutions to this
> problem, only one of which involves modifications to qmail.

That's an interesting idea.  So is there something about qmail that
allows for this verification hook to be practical?

What are the other 999,999 solutions?  

-Peter