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Index of Subjects Hi Jeff... CSuite has built lots of the IP and support systems around mail aliases, and we use httpd to provide custom name services and htaccess to provide security that's not usually found on other systems... we could begin the process of severing the tight binding between CSuite and some of these systems but if I thought it were half as easy as you we wouldn't be having this discussion... ;-) You're suggestions would certainly be a 'cleaner' way of doing the install/upgrade but that in itself is not an 'all compelling' argument. I've already indicated... I agree that in many ways it would be much easier. However there's a lot of underlying CSuite design that is dependent on our modification of some basic systems. Many of these design elements are important because they're designed to support a community network using volunteers who are not trained/qualified as system administrators. CSuite is definitely not just another single purpose application. This suggestion/discussion has enough merit that perhaps we need a test to answer some of these questions. Do a CSuite install, not install httpd and see what breaks and what we'd have to do to fix it... and we can't half do this, every CSuite install has to be considered to be a production machine. My guess is that the shine would wear off this idea but... you'd learn quite a bit about how CSuite is put together... ;-) ...and if my guess is wrong we move on to the mailer... ;-) david potter On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jeff Warnica wrote: > > > The short answer is: "We don't want to muck up somebody's perfectly good > > system! (if we can help it) > > > > 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! >
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