Re: no more qmail in openBSD...

[Peter van Dijk]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 08:11:05PM +0200, Olivier M. wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 07:35:11PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
> > /usr/local/bin is nearly standard.
> > djb's /package is a really nice way and a really good idea IMHO, the real
> > problem: it's unlikely that this standard will be widely adopted.
> > Unfortunately.
> 
> that is right. But it must not be in /package, or /services: 
> for example on my qmail system, I moved "/services" to
> /var/qmail/services, and this way everything is clean,
> and is working fine.

And in the process you completely violated all the consistency
benefits. (I'm not saying that is bad - I do it too. I'm just saying
that the whole point of this discussion is that OpenBSD removed the
port because they felt they were not *allowed* to violate this
consistency).

Greetz, Peter
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