On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:00:02AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: > > Even desktop users deserve an environment that follows standards. Has > everyone forgotten October's long discussion on this very subject? > http://fcp.surfsite.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=298345&topic_id=62876 > Note particularly reply #96 stating mail delivery is required by both > posix and the LSB. I have searched that on posix, but I have only seen that mailx is specified and seems to be a mandatory utility. However the wordings only requires local delivery. I don't think that a running MTA is needed by the specification. In the LSB, mailx and sendmail are required, but it seems to me that only the sendmail comand line interface is needed. Even local delivery is not mandated (though I may be missing something): http://refspecs.linux-foundation.org/LSB_3.2.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/baselib-sendmail-1.html However the fact that it is a mandatory posix utility doesn't necessarily means that it should be on every install. For example bc is mandatory. It should be brought in by the lsb virtual package, however, and maybe a virtual posix package should exist. -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
