[Coco] Fedora 6 DVD ISO & Linux in General

Frank Pittel fwp at deepthought.com
Fri May 4 16:56:59 EDT 2007


On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:39:30PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:59:59AM -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> 
> > >Please cite an example of these programs "offered strictly as source".
> > >Try to make it one that actually has broad appeal.  No doubt there
> > >are apps available only as source, but only because they are either
> > >too new to have proved themselves useful or of too limited appeal to
> > >be worth packaging by the distros.
> > 
> > Bzzzt. Wrong on *all* counts.
> > 
> > qmail.
> 
> 	http://www.qmail.org/rpms/RPMS/
> 
> Next?
> 
> John
> 
> P.S. I'll leave-out the fact that nearly no one actually cares what
> MTA they have as long as they have one...

Anyone that would care enough to want to use qmail instead of the
version of sendmail that all the distros install (there may be an
exception) would be more then capable of compiling it. The "average"
user is going to be more then happy with the stock configuration of
sendmail.

Frank



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