Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: NetBSD System Packages
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 09/30/1998 18:29:40
Wounds like a common script for 'add this entry to inetd.conf for
this service if not already used' would be helpful...
With settable defaults for conflicts:
fail
comment out existing
add commented out new entry
David/absolute
"Shall I be tempted by the devil thus?"
"Yes, if the devil tempt you to do good..."
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>
> : > - enable all three, potentially clashing with a different POP3 server
> : > installed by choice
> : > - enable only imap, making the autoconfiguration inconsistent
> :
> : - split it into an imap- and (at least one) pop-pkg, and handle
> : each one individually.
>
> You mean split it into _three_ pkgs? That pkg is set up to make the shared
> code (there's a lot of it) be a shared library. Now we get into the "more
> trouble than it's worth" category.
>
> If the AUTOINSTALL, or whatever "auto-clueful" script you want to call it,
> script can be interactive, then we don't have this problem.
>
> --
> -- Todd Vierling (Personal tv@pobox.com; Bus. todd_vierling@xn.xerox.com)
>