drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[Andrew Haley]

On 08/24/2010 03:37 PM, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:36 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:19 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> My previous objection was based on the precedent it sets. I don't want a
>>> "Desktop" distribution in Fedora. I want a server-usable distribution.
>>> Sure, it's just a dep and one can go install an MTA. But today it's
>>> killing the MTA, tomorrow it's removing something else that's useful on
>>> the server side of things. I want to see that trend stop and reverse.
>>
>> How about you become involved in the 'Server' SIG [1] then
> 
> Happy to do so. I also happen to believe that Fedora should have certain
> server-useful characteristics out of the box (like Linux always has
> done). That's my opinion, I've made it known, and now I'm done.

It's not just about the MTA.

I think there's a much more fundamental question here, which is
whether a default Fedora installation is intended to be a real
UNIX-like system or just the dependencies for GNOME.

Andrew.