more install.sh

[Scott Silva]

on 10-21-2008 6:31 AM Kai Schaetzl spake the following:
> Mark Nienberg wrote on Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:32:32 -0700:
> 
>> Alternatively, could the initial check for the module be improved 
>> somehow to detect that the module is already installed as part of the 
>> the core perl installation? I suspect that must not be possible or Jules 
>> would have done it already.
> 
> I've already pointed several times in that direction. At least there should 
> be an installer option to skip all the perl modules alltogether. Or, maybe 
> it's there now, I didn't check. What I do when installing a new MS is to 
> install *only* the mailscanner*.rpm and the tnef and some other rpm from 
> inside the tarball. *Not* all the perl*src.rpms. They are simply not needed 
> on Red Hat platforms. All are either part of the distribution or even part 
> of the distributed Perl or can be obtained from rpmforge.
> That makes the installation also *much* faster :-)
> 
> AFAIK, Jules tries to make the installation "fool-proof", so you do not 
> need to think about any requirements before installing MS. That obviously 
> conflicts with an already well-equipped OS.
> 
> Kai
> 
Not only fool proof, but he probably doesn't want to have case statements for
dozens of mainline distros and their versions.

-- 
MailScanner is like deodorant...
You hope everybody uses it, and
you notice quickly if they don't!!!!

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