Re: Frivolous forking

[Scott Ballantyne]

> Most things that packages need are rather simple, and straightforward.  I
> cannot think of any package besides Qmail whose distribution license
> requires self-modifying binaries to be included in every distribution, nor
> that mandates a fixed, hardcoded, installation directory.  Show me one,
> besides Qmail. 

qmail's binaries are not self modifying.

> Nope.  The other reason why Red Hat turned down Qmail is because djb
> refused to allow Qmail to be installed anywhere except /var/qmail.
> 

ln -s doesn't work on Redhat systems?

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