On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 3:58 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. sendmail currently serves little to no use on a fedora desktop by default. -- Fedora 13 (www.pembo13.com) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
