At 01:17 PM 7/14/2004, you wrote: >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.
Capital idea! Robert, can you add this to the next ssmtp release? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/
