> BTW, what is REALLY the problem with his file structure ?
> It create 5 more inodes ??? It 'looks ugly' ???
> I can't care less, why are you ??
> Please illight me

|As i have said numerous times here, I don't care about the "/var/qmail"
|issue. The issue is that we probably never will see qmail, djbdns,
ucspi-tcp
|and friends in the Mandrake non commercial distro because of the "DJB
|licence". This, my friend is too sad...

Yes, but during year Netscape came with every mandrake distro !
People trace the limit where it is convienient.
The only exception being RMS :-)

|As Vincent Danen described, if Mandrake can't patch it and/or rearrange the
|install locations, it's not free.

It is not free enough (in their point of view), which is somehow comercial
as well.
It do believe he way is better. However I am not using runit. It is my
choice.

I am happy to learn that Mandrake is going to release the package as
commercial and not ignore them.
I can understand their policy, commercial is fine with me.

|Hell, I think even "echo "gcc %{optflags}" > conf-cc violates the "DJB
|licence". You can't change the queue split value like: echo "53" >
conf-split
|either... Or echo "/usr/local/qmail" > conf-qmail. And so on... Just
because
|there are these conf-* files it doesn't mean you are allowed to use them
for
|packaging, to conform to the LSB or FHS standards... This was discussed on
|the *very* long thread on the BSD list... Think about it..., isn't this
plain
|stubborn silly stupidity or what?

Mr Bernstein value security. I am SURE that if Mandrake provide Qmail, it
will be AS SECURE AS compiling it myself.
I appreciate this security offered by the licence.

And effectively he is stubborn, RMS as well, people with a goal are often
stubborn.
It is part of their strenght.

You can not will to change the world and bend as soon as someone complain !!

Thomas

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