Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

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On Fri, 2010-08-27 at 01:14 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 12:20 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I think, that reverses the responsibility.  If anything is installed by
> default,  *that* needs a very good justification.  For one thing, it
> isn't just about space,  I don't want any services running on my system
> that I don't need and I don't want to take care of updates including
> security fixes for those software either.

I think that makes sense if we're talking about adding a default, but
taking one out - especially something that's been default in all Unix-y
OSes for ever - is a different case.
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