Bill can now pre-package qmail + netqmail_patches + his patches. That
only saves a few steps. It doesn't change vpopmail, autorespond,
qmailadmin, squirrelmail or courier-imap. They are all separate
projects with separate release dates the toaster author must integrate.
Yes, but now all of these can now be precompiled. I am thinking about a
complete package with all dependencies precompiled and on for example
Debian Etch all you would do is:
apt-get install qmail-base qmail-smtpd qmail-smtpds qmail-whatever-you-need
and all will be installed in like 30 seconds. Of course you would still
need to configure a bunch of settings, especially how all the packages are
supposed to interact. But there could be lots of sensible defaults for
standard scenarios. I think that is what they do with exim on debian.
So for the uninitiated it would still take a couple of days to get
everything right, but not like 6 weeks (this was in 2003 when I first
really learned linux and qmail at the same time), like in my case :(
So I think this is going to happen sooner or later. At least on Debian.
-sasa
