Re: Removing Sendmail
Jens Rehsack <[email protected]> Thu, 03 Apr 2003 00:08:13 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.configuration,gmane.os.freebsd.current |
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| Organization | LiWing IT-Services |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Terry Lambert wrote: > Jens Rehsack wrote: > >>John Baldwin wrote: >> >>>First, core@ is not the appropriate body for that type of request. >>>Both current@ and arch@ are much better targets. Second, is >>>NO_SENDMAIL + the postfix port inadequate? >> >>The problem I see with that is, that even a minimalistic base install >>installs things like sendmail, ppp, atm-stuff, g77 and so on. >> >>I really think splitting the base in some sub-parts would it make much >>easier to do NO_SENDMAIL on my own. So I had to remove each not required >>file separately. That's no good solution. > > > > So we are back to: > > o breaking the base system into packages, As it's already done with crypto, krb5, src, ... > o either pre-installed with package alternatives to > allow deinstall and reinstall, OR No, not deinstall. Decide on first binary sysinstall, maybe with writing a template /etc/make.conf respecting the packages you didn't want. > o we are into seperately packaging all mail servers, > picking the current one as default, and hacking the > heck out of sysinstall to make sure there's a seperate > choice item to get one installed No, if someone decides not having eg. an mta (s)he should know about the risk and consequences. > ...all so that programs that require the ability to send local > mail, many of them base systems components, can function. Only if the wrapper is configured correct (eg. for mail) or not, eg. if ppp or g77 is required but not available. > That's what I said in the first place. > > So we are agreed. I meant other. Maybe now it's more clear. > The correct mailing lists for this discussion are [email protected] > and [email protected]. > > I've set followups to [email protected] to indicate my own > bias and the total lack of space for more sysinstall code on the > install floppy... Just 2 more lists to subscribe :-) - may local folder list get slowly huge :-) Regards, Jens _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-config To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"