drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 05:43:49PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>
>>  that seems like a bit of odd logic. The logs are emitted to syslog with
>> the same thought in mind - that someone will read them - but that is
>> also not necessarily true. But I would not want to see us discarding
>> syslog, either.
>
> We have a range of utilities that perform useful syslog parsing. The
> fact that most of them then seem to pass that output to sendmail leaves
> me a little less convinced that anyone pays the slightest bit of
> attention to them.
>
> More realistically, we install syslog because it gives us debug
> information that we (as developers) wouldn't otherwise be able to get.

I see syslog as the equivalent of the event log in that other OS. You
can easily view it with a basic "less /var/log/someLog" or a gui
viewer (not sure if we install that by default) or even some
notification method.

Peter