Hi,
On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Michael Merritt wrote:
> First, I'm not sure what's being referred to here as "standard"
> directories. SuSE, RedHat, Debian, et. al., each use their own
> "default" directory structures, most of which are different that the
> one that is used if I compile/install my own version of the package
> (take Apache, for example -- SuSE and RH scatter the configuration
> files to all ends of the earth, whereas the default installation puts
> everything in /usr/local/apache).
/usr/local is used for packages, which do not belong to the distribution
itself. This is just for convenience, so you don't mix up self-installed
files with the rest of the distribution. See www.pathname.com/fhs for
further details.
> Is Qmail not "free" just because SuSE can't make a custom .rpm of it
> which puts the configuration files in seven million different places
> instead of /var/qmail? Putting everyting in /var/qmail makes a whole
> boatload more sense to me than does to modify it -- I have never seen a
> problem with qmail's dir structure. Can someone from SuSE elaborate on
> just why exactly "we were not allowed to put it on CD" (Lenz Grimmer)?
Maybe "not allowed" was not the correct term. We have looked at qmail and
have decided in favor of Postfix over qmail for certain reasons. The
strange licensing terms were just one of them. We now have two MTAs on the
CDs, sendmail and postfix. Since an MTA is a very essential part of the
distribution, we do not want to mess the base system with too many
options. And qmail _is_ different in many terms... Just think of the local
delivery to users. This would also require to modify other tools
like pop-deamons, etc...
> If it is a matter of it not being "free," KDE has been on the distro
> since long before qt was ever made semi-open-source, and IMO, qmail is
> still a lot more "free" than is qt. I think that the user should have
> the option on whether he wants qmail, sendmail, postfix, or another MTA,
> not being forced to install sendmail or nothing by default, downloading
> qmail, etc., etc...
I see. But I hope, our reasons are now clear as well. Our decision was not
purely based on the licensing issue, there are technical terms involved as
well.
> Now, of course, I realize that there can only be some 650 MB worth of
> packages placed on the CD-ROM, but shouldn't the second most popular
> and the most secure (fact, not my opinion...) MTA be included before
> some of these other lesser-known packages?
Have a look at Postfix. I am sure, it can be compared with qmail in terms
of security and speed. See www.postfix.org for more details.
Bye,
LenZ
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