Bug 193015

Summary:	allow minimal courier installation
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Bernd Wurst <bugzilla-gentoo>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	hanno
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Bernd Wurst 2007-09-19 06:41:43 UTC

When I install courier package, everything that's contained gets installed. in some situations, this is overkill. When I only want a full-featured nullmailer replacement, I don't need webmail, pop3d or imapd (and all the SSL versions).

Looking to debian, they make single packages for the applications. I thing Gentoo could do this very well with USE-Flags.
I think bug #84288 is related to this: Webmaild doen't even need to be compiled on many systems (runtime configuration cannot be replaced by this one!).

So I suggest either adding a "courier-minimal" package that only compiles courierd and everything needed for outbound esmtp (with starttls and authentication) or (my preference) adding some local use-flags.

Comment 1 Bernd Wurst 2008-04-21 13:11:00 UTC

This bug has been obsoleted by my new ebuild files. there are use-flags for the optional components and IMAP/POP3 can be disabled via configuration.