Re: New way of doing master.cf to be more upgrade and packaging

On 5/24/05 5:20 PM, "Wietse Venema" <wietse@porcupine.org> wrote:

> Nathan Grennan:
>> On Tuesday 24 May 2005 08:42, Wietse Venema wrote:
>>> All this can be automated with a master.cf editing program.
>>
>> Yes, but in the case of rpm packaging using pre and post scripts to call a
>> configuration editing command is still less clean than just spliting the
>> configuration file into a directory of files.
>
> Third-party apps are not supposed to directly update Postfix
> configuration files. Changes are better automated with documented
> command-line interfaces, similar to "postconf -e".
>
> It would be a mistake to split main.cf or master.cf into smtpd.cf,
> local.cf, etcetera; scattering the information across files makes
> "postconf -e" like editing harder.
>

Not to mention, it would also "complexify" Postfix unnecessarily. It is the
simple configuration which makes Postfix so desirable over qmail or
sendmail.

Its not broken -- don't fix it!

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