drop default MTA for Fedora 15

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Mon Aug 23 19:15:11 UTC 2010


On Sun, 2010-08-22 at 20:10 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> > pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
> >
> >> I know its been discussed in the past but there's been reasons not to
> >> drop a default MTA but now that cronie (the last actual dependency)
> >> has support for logging to system logs is there any reason to include
> >> an MTA by default for F-14?
> >
> > A bit late to consider for F-14 imo (I'd argue something like should in
> > place and testable by or near feature freeze), F-15 is doable.
> 
> Test what? That no MTA is present?
> 
> I'd  say we should stop arguing forever and just do it.

What's the benefit of having no default MTA at all? Is it that Desktop
users don't care about MTAs being installed? what about those of us who
care more about server installations than Desktop?

Jon.




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