Configuring cyrus-imapd for compilation

Jason Tibbitts tibbs at math.uh.edu
Wed Mar 13 12:49:27 EDT 2019


>>>>> "KM" == Ken Murchison <murch at fastmail.com> writes:

KM> I don't see a downside to have one monolithic package.  I think its
KM> easier for an admin to have everything available to them in one
KM> package rather than having to go find the correct package for the
KM> optional piece they are looking for.

In general I agree with you, but for a distro the issue generally comes
down to dependencies.

In Fedora, for example, we split the virus scanning portion out to a
separate package, because otherwise cyrus-imapd ends up with a
dependency on clamav.  We want to avoid that because not everyone wants
to maintain a clamav installation so we put the cyr_virusscan binary and
its manpage in a separate subpackage.

 - J<


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