drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 01:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> On 08/27/2010 12:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
>> > That wasn't the question. The question was what is the benefit of not
>> > having one. Is it simply that it saves 1.6MB of disk space? If so, uh,
>> > woop?
>>
>> I think, that reverses the responsibility.  If anything is installed by
>> default,  *that* needs a very good justification.  For one thing, it
>> isn't just about space,  I don't want any services running on my system
>> that I don't need and I don't want to take care of updates including
>> security fixes for those software either.
>
> I think that makes sense if we're talking about adding a default, but
> taking one out - especially something that's been default in all Unix-y
> OSes for ever - is a different case.


sendmail currently serves little to no use on a fedora desktop by default.


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