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Index of Subjects On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jeff Warnica wrote: > > On a system that has mail (or httpd) aliases configured, or any number of > > other custom configurations, if we go ahead and install over top we run > > the risk of trashing that configuration. > > Dont install mail or httpd at all then! IMHO everything major belongs under $CS_ROOT (which should probably be under /usr or /opt, not /var, but that's an easy default to change). That means httpd, zmailer, pine, lynx, and anything else that we customize a lot and need a lot of control over, plus anything weird that might not have easy to install binaries available for most platforms (lqtext). As time moves on we should probably work on eliminating as much weird customization as we can, but I don't see Pine or Lynx ever leaving this tree. If we move to another mailing list manager we might be able to move zmailer out of this tree, but it'd be tricky (and zmailer is tricky to set up anyway). httpd will need mods for suexec and maybe PHP, plus any custom modules we might need. We have a number of other requirements (bash-2, gawk, skill, agrep, gnuplot, perl...) that could easily be replaced with a script to check versions and make sure the right paths go into the *_PATH variables in csuite/etc/conf/vars. Michael
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