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Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:17:54 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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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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