F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 24 06:30:01 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Matthew Miller
> <mattdm at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:18:47AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote:
>>> > Since it _isn't_ served via DHCP in any environment I'm aware of, that's not
>>> > actually useful.
>>> Nice to meet you Matt.  As of this morning, it is served via DHCP in
>>> mine.  There's also that guy earlier in the thread.  So now you know
>>> of two.  Perhaps that dhcp option ought to be in the packaged
>>> dhcpd.conf template.
>>
>> You've totally removed the context here. Which cloud environment do you run?
>
> Actually I'm afraid your cloud environment example is just as far out
> of context.  I can't imagine many cloud deployments that don't use
> kickstarts and have their own individually chosen packageset tuned for
> exactly their business case.  They can use core / minimal +  whatever
> specific individual packages they need.  I hardly think a cloud
> environment is going to base their production on the Default package
> set.
>
> Default should include what people 'generally expect of a GNU+Linux
> system' -- and that includes an MTA.

Citation needed. Given that one very distribution with a very big
userbase don't install an MTA by default ...


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