Re: /var/www is depracated, which directory to use?

Russ Allbery wrote: Steve McIntyre writes: I'm still unconvinced by /srv personally - we've strived for years in Debian to make things work as much as possible straight from initial installation, yet now we're expected to deliberately leave services unconfigured. I don't think this is progress

Re: The future of the boot system in Debian

Could someone please point me to a discussion on the pros and cons of upstart that was not funded by that spacecowboy shuttleworth? Michael Biebl wrote: Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: The future of the boot system in Debian === [..] The planned time frame fo

What exactly replaced base-config

So what exactly replaced base-config base-config provided a set of useful utilities that could be run AFTER Debian was installed to quickly fix certain aspect of a Debian system or to do quick chrooted post install tasks. I've been told by some that it had become "replaced by the Debian insta

Why does mysql-server depend on exim?

I just bootstrapped a fresh vm for some sandbox testing and came across the following issue. While installing mysql-server I noticed the following dependencies: "bsd-mailx exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light" Although it's not that big of a deal, it does raise the question "Why sh