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From: Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailwrapper changes: mailer-config
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 13:26:01
Message-Id: 426CEFEB.5010704@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Mailwrapper changes: mailer-config by Andreas Vinsander
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4 Andreas Vinsander wrote:
5 > Tom Martin wrote:
6 >
7 >>It's going to work like this:
8 >>
9 >>New revisions of all mailwrapper-enabled packages in Portage (ssmtp,
10 >>exim, postfix, sendmail, msmtp, etc.) will include support for the new
11 >>system. Each package will install a file into /etc/mail/, called
12 >>package-name.mailer. Then, mailer-config is used to switch between
13 >>profiles in a similar way to gcc-config, motif-config et al.
14 >
15 >
16 > This is starting to look a lot like /etc/alternatives a la debian, what
17 > was the reason for not using that solution from the start (for all
18 > packages that might have alternatives)?
19 > Wouldn't that be a more generic solution? (Have to admit I haven't
20 > looked at debian /etc/alternatives more than over a co-workers shoulder,
21 > but it seemed appealing)
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23 http://developer.berlios.de/projects/eclectic/
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25 Already in the works. slarti knows of this, but wanted to get it implemented
26 now rather than waiting for eclectic to be added to portage. Btw, ciaranm,
27 what's the ETA on that?
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32 Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@g.o>
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