[gentoo-dev] Mailwrapper changes: mailer-config

[Tom Martin]

Hi,

Fernando <ferdy(at)gentoo.org> and me have been working on a system for
mailwrapper that doesn't involve mangled config file with too many
comments and etc-update hell. We're just about to get the thing into
Portage and start the transition, so this is a final mail to let people
know what's going on.

It's going to work like this:

New revisions of all mailwrapper-enabled packages in Portage (ssmtp,
exim, postfix, sendmail, msmtp, etc.) will include support for the new
system. Each package will install a file into /etc/mail/, called
package-name.mailer. Then, mailer-config is used to switch between
profiles in a similar way to gcc-config, motif-config et al.

We also have a companion eclass, mailer.eclass, to go along with the
changes.

This should make things a lot easier for people but if anyone has any
concerns, we'd like to hear them.

Thanks,
Tom and Fernando

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