[Dovecot] Standards of expectations for software installs

Thomas Leuxner tlx at leuxner.net
Mon Aug 16 20:30:45 EEST 2010


Am 16.08.2010 um 19:22 schrieb Marc Perkel:
> No - I'm saying that an upgrade that does exactly the same thing as the earlier version should "just work" without having to research cryptic error messages you get after the new software fails to load. What I'm saying is that Linux should be as easy as Windows.

And that's the point. It does not do things like the earlier version as privileges have been removed from processes. All of that has been noted on the list during development and in the documentation. There was even a poll around the actual name to be used.


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