F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 13:45:34 -0700
Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> 
> Restricting the context to just Fedora, by default it is a desktop OS
> with a GUI. That's the default install from live desktop, DVD ISO,
> and netinst media. That is the primary Fedora deliverable and
> experience.

By that logic, you could argue that Fedora should not have sshd
installed by default. A typical desktop OS with a GUI is  typically
never being accessed remotely, for the vast 99% majority of cases.

And yet somehow I doubt that anyone will dare to remove sshd from the
default install.

But since we are bashing around about unnecessary default services, one
set of services that I would actually like to see removed is the NFS
stack (nfs, nfslock, portmap, ...). Arguably, a typical desktop OS with
a GUI has absolutely no need of networked file systems, especially as
obsolete as NFS. I've used Fedora for as long as it exists, and I've
never seen anyone actually use NFS in real life scenarios on a typical
desktop machine with a GUI. That's also got to be in the 99% of cases...

Best, :-)
Marko