On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, John Galt wrote: > First of all, what newbie is going to want to run a mailserver?
I don't know. And neither do you. Stranger things have happened. Should they wish to install a mail server, Debian is making things a little easier for them. Running a > mailserver is usually a job for a medium-level sysadmin: certainly not > a job to add for someone trying to get comfortable with a system. Where's > the equivalent task-POP? > I guess you haven't packaged it yet. It's nothing to do with me. > In fact, it's more newbie oriented than task-imap. There were two > possibilities allowed for a single package task, you took the wrong one > and took offense. The other one is pretty bogus too. > I guess this is to cover the fact that the > true reasoning behind task-imap is offensive to the user, as you prove > later. > > See above: if he's really a newbie, whatinhell is he doing running an > IMAP server in the first place? > Because he wants to? Who are we to judge who is worthy of runny a mailserver or not. It's a task that people often want to do. > This sounds like a problem of dselect, not an added function of tasksel. > Then please volunteer to fix dselect. In the mean time this is what we've got. > > having to think about which of the three or more IMAP servers in the > > THE >>>HELL<<< YOU'RE GOING TO USE TASKSEL TO REMOVE THE SYSADMIN'S > "BURDEN" OF CHOOSING SYSTEM POLICY!!!!! I will fight you on this one > unitl hell freezes over. The System Administrator is assumed competent to > make their own decisions on their system, and NO DD has the right to > override it or assume otherwise. Relieving the Sysadmin of "having to > think" is assuming the sysadmin is stupid, and implying that YOU are the > stupid one. > So I guess you won't be using task-imap then. Oh well. When you come up with a better idea, I'll be happy to switch. It took me about 10 minutes to create this package and I must have spent less than an hour maintaining it so I don't have any particular attachment to it or anything. But please stop kvetching on the mailing lists and do something if you expect anyone to listen. -- Jaldhar H. Vyas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
