Re: [gentoo-dev] preference concerns over

[Paul de Vrieze]

>
> I am not a developer, but I was mildly surprised and pleased that MTA's
> on Gentoo "understand" what other packages are installed and get
> configured appropriately -- example, qmail will act differently if the
> qmail-queue (is that the right name?) and a virus scanner are
> installed...
>
> In other words, "it just works".
>
> I don't know if this type of customization is the type of thing you guys
> are discussing, but a default qmail build certainly has to be configured
> quite differently to get features like this to work from "raw source"
> builds.

This is one of the things I think we are discussing. Some people don't
like this for certain reasons. I think we should accomodate those people
by allowing them to turn this of without them needing to edit the ebuild
or interfering with the build process.

>
> Personally I like that Gentoo's package maintainers for tools like this
> made my life a little easier in this sense, but if you're going for a
> more "pure" source-only distro, you'd have to drop things like this as
> well.
>

I want to accomodate both. I personally like the choices made by the
gentoo developers, but I think there are people who don't or are
principally against things being non-vanilla, and we might accomodate
them.

Paul


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