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RE: Let's start working! (Re: qmail Patch Repository)

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Subject: RE: Let's start working! (Re: qmail Patch Repository)
From: "Peter Normann" <peter@normann.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:16:30 +0100
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Fabio Busatto wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:46:59PM +0100, Peter Normann wrote:
>> Why not simply choose some common scenarios and then make a couple of
>> bundled patches that contain the patches needed? That is, given that
>> - for some reason - netqmail doesn't suffice and maybe that odd
>> patch. 
> 
> This is what a qmail toaster is, and toasters are already online (but
> they don't let the user decide which patch he wants in a granular
> way), and I'm trying to do something more than another toaster.

IMHO, I would think that it would be easier/cleaner/better to maintain a
list of bundled patches for each and every combination of patches then,
instead of #ifdef juggling - however futile the project as a whole may seem.

Sorry if I sound sullen.

Peter


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