In article <19980925044018.49382@wuschel-gw.franken.de>,
	Udo Steinegger <udo.steinegger@noc.franken.de> writes:
> this package installs without having the imap and pop3 lines added
> to /etc/services.

NetBSD already has "pop3" and "imap2" entries in "/etc/services".

> Neither the appropriate lines in /etc/inetd.conf are added.
> So one needs to add it manually.

Because lot of people don't want packages to mess arround with
"/etc/inetd.conf".

> One needs to type 'make certificate' by oneself too. It wouldn't be
> too hard to answer the 4 questions asked by that command at the time
> one types 'make install'.

Interactive packages are bad for automatic package source tree builds.
That's why they are avoided where possible.

[...]

Anyway, bug reports should be delivered via "send-pr", mails regarding
the package system belong to "tech-pkg@netbsd.org".

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Matthias Scheler                                http://home.owl.de/~tron/