Subject: Re: postfix change to pkg_install, again
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@rz.uni-regensburg.de>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/29/1999 19:54:36
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
: I don't think it's useful to force every pkgsrc-current user to update his
: pkg-tools for a change that enables things that should better not be used.
Right.
: [*] indeed, having the possibility to really add full pathnames to PLIST
: is a win, IMHO.
Perhaps, but my point is that enabling such functionality encourages things
that allow pkgs to get much sloppier.
So, Christos states that postfix-script should be immutable, in which case
it should go into ${PREFIX}/share/postfix and the PLIST should create/delete
symlinks instead of installing directly into /etc.
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