drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[Garrett Holmstrom]

On Aug 26, 2010, at 13:50, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 20:30 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>> Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> writes:
>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> I have desktops with no MTA. I can read mail on them using remote
>> pop3/imap (with ssh), sending mail also uses ssh and /usr/sbin/sendmail
>> on remote machine. Alternatively, SMTP to a smarthost. Plays nicely with
>> e.g. Emacs/Gnus.
>>
>> There is absolutely no need for a local MTA there.
>
> 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?

While it may be debatable what benefit one might get from removing it 
from the default install, can we at least remove MTAs from @core to help 
make things easier for appliance folks?  One can still go in @base, 
which would make it continue to appear on all but the most minimal of 
installs.