Re: F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

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On 01/01/2014 09:39 PM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 02:25:01AM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
On 01/02/2014 02:17 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Yes but non technical users wouldn't care to navigate the UI you are
proposing either.   The entire proposal only satisfies a very small
small niche for users receiving root mail and want to control exactly
how they get it during installation itself.
Why would they not care? The UI will make them aware of something they
probably is not aware of. I can not see that lost emails is a good thing.
Better to make the user aware of that that mail exist, and make it easy for
them to receive it.
I'm sorry but I do not see the reasoning behind the assumption:
non-technical implies "we need to protect them from good practice".
What does removing an MTA (IOW system mail) serve?  If the argument is
saving resources, then one could counter argue a non-technical user is
less likely to care about "saving system resources".

Actually, if you look at Fedora now developing on ARM and porting to i386 and x86_64 (well this might be a simplification), "saving system resourses" is very important. Also we are at the point where a single core system behaves erratically (does so on my Asus Eee900); fortunately multicore ARMs are rather common but resources are still an issue.

THe new crop of users are coming from the Android world, not the Windows world and are expecting the OS chiefs to take care of everything.

And to another note, this is why I expect something like cron-yum to be in the base in f21. Users will expect updates to be taken care of for them. At least the download waiting for them to do the install.


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