drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:37 -0400, 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.

FWIW, I'm with Jon and Adam on this one. I just don't see how not having
an MTA by default is a win, except in disk space terms, and it takes up
a tiny amount of disk space (especially if we pick a lighter-weight one
than sendmail to be the default). I think it makes sense to keep one,
for all the good reasons they cited.
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