Re: Conflicting alternatives (was: Debian switchable MTA mechanism)

2021-02-16 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 17:22:21 +0100 wrote: ... > Exactly. This is user-y stuff: imagine two X servers running on behalf > of two users (some time ago, those were a separate hardware: remember > those shiny HP thingies with a whopping 6 MB of RAM and a huge monitor? > > This was before HP special

Re: Conflicting alternatives (was: Debian switchable MTA mechanism)

2021-02-16 Thread didar
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 11:03:14AM -0500, Dan Ritter wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Still, there is to me no good reason not to allow installing both exim > > and postfix at the same time. I think it's just a tradeoff between how > > often this could be useful and how much work it takes to tw

Re: Conflicting alternatives (was: Debian switchable MTA mechanism)

2021-02-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 09:17:13AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Therefore, you'll find apretty advanced alternatives system > > for client-y stuff in Debian (editor, MUA, what not) but > > not for server-y stuff. > > Hmm... so that's your take on it? > Maybe you're right. I was thinking of th

Re: Conflicting alternatives (was: Debian switchable MTA mechanism)

2021-02-16 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > Still, there is to me no good reason not to allow installing both exim > and postfix at the same time. I think it's just a tradeoff between how > often this could be useful and how much work it takes to tweak the > packages. An MTA has to provide certain things, or else i

Conflicting alternatives (was: Debian switchable MTA mechanism)

2021-02-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Therefore, you'll find apretty advanced alternatives system > for client-y stuff in Debian (editor, MUA, what not) but > not for server-y stuff. Hmm... so that's your take on it? Maybe you're right. I was thinking of the display manager as a counter-example (you can install lxdm, gdm, and other