Hi, Fernando <ferdy(at)gentoo.org> and me have been working on a system for mailwrapper that doesn't involve mangled config file with too many comments and etc-update hell. We're just about to get the thing into Portage and start the transition, so this is a final mail to let people know what's going on.
It's going to work like this: New revisions of all mailwrapper-enabled packages in Portage (ssmtp, exim, postfix, sendmail, msmtp, etc.) will include support for the new system. Each package will install a file into /etc/mail/, called package-name.mailer. Then, mailer-config is used to switch between profiles in a similar way to gcc-config, motif-config et al. We also have a companion eclass, mailer.eclass, to go along with the changes. This should make things a lot easier for people but if anyone has any concerns, we'd like to hear them. Thanks, Tom and Fernando -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux
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