> Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:26:19 +0100 > From: Pierre Labastie <pierre.labas...@neuf.fr> > To: BLFS Development List <blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org> > Subject: [blfs-dev] discussion about sendmail > > Hi, > > Recently, sendmail has been archived, (see ticket #4723). There has not > been a real discussion about that. The reason is that the current > building instructions do not lead to a functional package, although > Armin and Igor have tried to do so. Furthermore, there are alternatives > (exim4 and postfix), which are deemed better than sendmail anyway. OTOH, > I suppose that folks monitoring this list not all follow BLFS trac, and > it may be interesting to hear what they have to say. That is the purpose > of this thread. >
Yes, I was about to post here on that. Wouldn't normally such a discussion take place on -dev and only after that would any -book actions happen - per the notes: ---- Ref: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/mail.html -- "blfs-book The blfs-book list is used for coordinating the BLFS Book's maintenance. Traffic on it is mostly Trac and SVN commit messages. It is important that all development discussion of interest to the Book's users take place on blfs-dev, not here." ---- The trac item is: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/4723 That's a _very_ summary-'removal' of sendmail; and doesn't reflect well on b/lfs. "Since its build system requires IQ over 9000 to understand, I won't bother to try to fix it." (ibid). There are plenty of distros that build and use sendmail perfectly well. Very often b/lfs will avail itself of such instructions from other distros, for all sorts of packages, and to a very wide range of degrees of complexity. Yet in this case the package is dropped like a hot potato(/coal). What was (really) going on there, in that trac ticket? Also, the tone of "The current situation is terrible and is not copy/paste friendly at all. See Xorg, Qt, KDE instructions for more information." (re libreoffice: ref 'http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/4725'), together with the above sendmail stuff, sounds more like someone is in a rather irascible mood? rgds, akhiezer > Pierre > -- > -- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
