Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/07/14/13:18:17
On Jul 14 12:45, Larry Hall wrote:
> At 11:07 AM 7/14/2004, you wrote:
> >I don't think cron should contain a dependency to ssmtp though. It would
> >be the same as to have a dependency to exim.
>
> Well, I brought it up since it explicitly creates the link to ssmtp. An
> easier alternative would simply be to check if ssmtp already exists before
> creating the link, though that might not work as well in the cases where
> both are being installed at the same time.
>
> This isn't a big issue but it would make things more complete/correct.
Methinks that a correct approach (for a given value of correct) would
be to create the symlink in an ssmtp postinstall script. That's what
exim does, too. Creating the symlink in the cron postinstall script
was a hack at one point. I'd be happy to get rid of it.
> > And why should cron.README
> >contain hints about how to set up ssmtp? That's the job for the ssmtp README, isn't it?
>
> Agreed. At most, it could contain a pointer to the ssmtp README. Going
> beyond that isn't wise IMO.
Yeah, that's fine with me.
Corinna
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