Re: Is there a good reason qmail isn't a port?

[Nick Holland <nick@holland-consulting.net>]

nemir nemiria wrote:
> Just curious.   It seems that they have synergistic philosophy and it's 
> popular and stable.

See archives, this has been beaten to death, repeatedly.
Summary:
1) Why?  If you can't compile a DJB program yourself, you probably 
shouldn't be running it.  Compiling his stuff is trivial, much easier 
than /PROPERLY/ implementing a mail or DNS server.  The guy knows how to 
write portable programs, and much of his SW was written on OpenBSD.
2) at times, ports have seemed to have been against the will of the 
author, at least how we would wish to do it.  (short version: he puts 
things in strange places.  We try to keep things in "standard" places 
(at least, our definition of standard).  DJB doesn't like this).
3) See #1. 8)

Nick.
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