Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

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On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:41 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:52:45AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, I'm with Jon and Adam on this one. I just don't see how not having
> > an MTA by default is a win, except in disk space terms, and it takes up
> > a tiny amount of disk space (especially if we pick a lighter-weight one
> > than sendmail to be the default). I think it makes sense to keep one,
> > for all the good reasons they cited.
> 
> Shipping an MTA by default just gives developers the expectation that if 
> they pass something to sendmail then it'll be read by a human. Since 
> that's plainly untrue we should stop doing it and replace it with 
> something that's actually useful.
> 

I'm not really in the giving-a-crap camp for the MTA or not but:

 that seems like a bit of odd logic. The logs are emitted to syslog with
the same thought in mind - that someone will read them - but that is
also not necessarily true. But I would not want to see us discarding
syslog, either.

-sv


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