drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 8:15 PM, Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> wrote:
> 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?

In a server config I'm sure the person configuring the server would
know how to install a MTA, and in a lot of cases they might not want
sendmail but rather say postfix/exim etc. All its doing is removing it
from the base and core groups in comps.

Peter