On Aug 26, 2010, at 13:50, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 20:30 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> What's the benefit of having no default MTA at all? Is it that Desktop >>> users don't care about MTAs being installed? what about those of us who >>> care more about server installations than Desktop? >> >> I have desktops with no MTA. I can read mail on them using remote >> pop3/imap (with ssh), sending mail also uses ssh and /usr/sbin/sendmail >> on remote machine. Alternatively, SMTP to a smarthost. Plays nicely with >> e.g. Emacs/Gnus. >> >> There is absolutely no need for a local MTA there. > > 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? While it may be debatable what benefit one might get from removing it from the default install, can we at least remove MTAs from @core to help make things easier for appliance folks? One can still go in @base, which would make it continue to appear on all but the most minimal of installs. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
