Bug#301749: Re: Bug#301749: exim4 delays 30 sec when installing or removing

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 10:53:44AM -0400, Jason Spiro wrote:
> Most users use the default DEBCONF_PRIORITY of "high" because they don't 
> want to deal with things like exim-config.

I disagree with that. Most users leave debconf settings at their
default.

> I believe that the majority 
> of these users would prefer local delivery, and for all other exim 
> options to be left as the defaults the postinst script currently 
> suggests.

Please state why you believe so.

> (This way, if they use sudo, cron, etc. they will be able to 
> pick up messages sent by these apps easily using mailx or mutt. If not, 
> they can choose to have people send mail to their machine, or can use 
> fetchmail, or can use a POP3 client to read their mail directly off 
> their ISP's POP3 server. In all these cases, they'll be fine.)

So you're basically saying what we do is fine?

> People who want other options, e.g. a smarthost setup, can easily lower 
> their DEBCONF_PRIORITY, but it would be kind to newbies and what I feel 
> are the majority of non-Debian Developers to not ask them to go through 
> the mailer config when they install Debian.

I disagree with that.

Sorry, but I seem to be missing your actualy suggestion. Are you
suggesting to move all exim4 configuration questions down in debconf
priority?

Most of our questions are at "medium" priority, which is documented as
"Normal items that have reasonable defaults". If we move them down to
"low", that would mean "Very trivial items that have defaults that
will work in the vast majority of cases; only control freaks see
these." Only the question for the configtype is asked at "critical"
priority because this one question is _very_ important. Otherwise,
only the query for the smarthost is asked at "high" priority for
obvious reasons. I don't think that it is a good idea to hide mail
configuration.

Greetings
Marc

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