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Old 11-17-2005, 06:59 AM
marcmac marcmac is offline
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Default Intentional

It was intentional - we decided to leave the 3rdparty builds (postfix, tomcat, java, cyrus-sasl, etc) out for several reasons (most coming from the forums!)

The download size was unwieldy - 150 Megs was far too large for a source download, especially since most of it was stuff that wouldn't work for the downloader (unless they were on FC3/RHEL4) - they would have just had to rebuild it.

The installation from source is not easy - there are a lot of moving parts in ZCS (which is why it does so many things) - for ease of install, we focussed on the binary download, which packages everything together.
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