On Fri, 13 Feb 2004, Soren Jacobsen wrote:
> PKGSRC_MESSAGE_RECIPIENTS is great, but doesn't do much good when it's
> not set.  It is quite easy to miss a MESSAGE, and most users probably
> don't even _know_ about the variable.  Therefore, I propose that we mail
> them to root by default.  If a machine doesn't have somebody reading
> root's mail, well, shame on them.
>
> Any objections?

Great idea, I didn't know of the variable myself either. ;)

Maybe the mail can get a footer of where it comes from and how to get rid
of it ("Put $whatever into /etc/mk.conf").

BTW, is this functionality also built into pkg_add, or only present in
pkgsrc?


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert@feyrer.de>