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Re: [PLUG] sendmail installation
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:22:41AM -0500, Greg Lopp wrote:
> The question is, why are the sendmail and sendmail-cf packages
> separate? With something as complex and versatile as sendmail, what
> are the chances that you aren't going to twiddle something? If it is
> only another ~112kb to sendmail's ~270, why not smash 'em together?
> Does deb do this in one or two packages?
Just one. It looks like the .deb (at least in unstable) is ~670k. Debian
also includes an executable written by the sendmail maintainer,
/usr/sbin/sendmailconfig, which generates a sample sendmail.mc and builds
a .cf from that, based on the answers you give to the questions it asks.
I have no idea why one wouldn't want to install a means for changing your
configuration (other than 'vi /etc/sendmail.cf', ick) at the time of
install. It makes no sense to me.
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