Removing Sendmail

[Terry Lambert]

Jens Rehsack wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > First, core@ is not the appropriate body for that type of request.
> > Both current@ and arch@ are much better targets.  Second, is
> > NO_SENDMAIL + the postfix port inadequate?
> 
> The problem I see with that is, that even a minimalistic base install
> installs things like sendmail, ppp, atm-stuff, g77 and so on.
> 
> I really think splitting the base in some sub-parts would it make much
> easier to do NO_SENDMAIL on my own. So I had to remove each not required
> file separately. That's no good solution.


So we are back to:

o	breaking the base system into packages,

o	either pre-installed with package alternatives to
	allow deinstall and reinstall, OR

o	we are into seperately packaging all mail servers,
	picking the current one as default, and hacking the
	heck out of sysinstall to make sure there's a seperate
	choice item to get one installed

...all so that programs that require the ability to send local
mail, many of them base systems components, can function.

That's what I said in the first place.

So we are agreed.

The correct mailing lists for this discussion are config at freebsd.org
and install at freebsd.org.

I've set followups to config at freebsd.org to indicate my own
bias and the total lack of space for more sysinstall code on the
install floppy...

-- Terry