[csw-maintainers] Alternatives without automatic selection

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Tue Nov 30 17:56:06 -0500 2010:

> And why are you attempting to set same priorities in the first
> place, rather than make a priority decision about what deserves to
> be a higher priority?

The MTA example is the best here.  If I install exim on my systems as
that's what I prefer, something else that drags in sendmail
(hypothetically for some tool it provides that exim doesn't), I don't
want my preference of exim overwritten.  These two tools (and postfix)
should all have the same priority...there isn't even a sane way to
give them unequal priorities that doesn't involve personal preference.

Thanks
-Ben
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