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[Ronny Buchmann]

Am Dienstag, 9. Dezember 2003 20:45 schrieb Bill Nottingham:
> Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop at alert.infoplease.com) said:
> > It does not extend to setting a system default MTA, for instance, that a
> > user can choose to override. Or a system wide print system. Although I
> > suppose there could be extensions...but MTAs and printers handle many
> > mime types, most of which are also handled by some desktop viewer. So
> > it's both mime type and context that determines the app that gets
> > invoked.
>
> Well, I'm coming from a different perspective. Basically....
>
> Supporting two printing systems in the core OS is dumb. It's a waste
> of development effort all around, and it was probably a mistake when
> we did it. The way to a stable, mature, robust OS is to support one
> solution that does it *right* in the general case. It's why I'm leery
Most often people don't agree on "right" and/or "general case".

> of the sendmail/exim/postfix or wu-ftpd/vsftpd/pure-ftpd/proftpd
> situation, and I think using alternatives for three flavors of vi is
> extremely crazy.
>
> Basically, in my opinion, spending a lot of time implementing an
> infrastructure to support choosing between 6 web browsers is better
> spent *fixing* one of the web browsers to support all of the
> features you need.
I agree with you completly on this point.

This would also mean replacing vsftpd with pure-ftpd. (I think enough points 
were made in the prevous discussion on this topic.)

For the MTA the answer is not so simple, it depends on how much (sendmail/old 
unix [aka /var/spool/mail]) compatibility is needed/wanted.

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