>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe
<kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
Aidan> Ar an chéad lá is fiche de mí Márta, scríobh Michael Sperber:
>>
>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan
Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
>>
Aidan> Could I have some commentary on this? I think the mechanism for
Aidan> changing defaults based on packages’ presence is reasonable,
>
> I think this is just another variant of running activation code as
> part of the autoload cookies, and we decided to discard this mode of
> operation in favor of explicit activation by the user years ago. It's
> also supremely unmodular.
Aidan> Can you suggest a better way to do it? sendmail-user-agent can’t handle
Aidan> MIME, so we should not ship with it as our default mailer if that is
Aidan> avoidable.
Well, in the context of our policy, I'd say it is unavoidable. Even
if our policy were different, the change should be made in VM, not the
core.
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Cheers =8-} Mike
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