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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
