Adam Borowski wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Is this the right time to do it? > > No. Cron needs some way to report about its jobs,
Cron came up in the previous discussion about this on -devel (which I'd started), so I fixed that. See the patches in http://bugs.debian.org/670118 for cron and http://bugs.debian.org/670137 for anacron. With those patches, cron and anacron can log job output to syslog. > mdadm has to notify about > failures, etc, etc. mdadm already recommends an MTA, and mdadm has priority optional, making it not part of the default install. So, an MTA could become priority optional as well, and only get pulled in when needed. In any case, mdadm already logs to syslog by default, and can run an arbitrary user-specified command on alerts as well. Based on that, I'd suggest changing the Recommends to a Suggests, so that people installing on RAID don't end up with an MTA unless they otherwise want one. I also fixed apt-listchanges (http://bugs.debian.org/666086) so that the default configuration works with or without an MTA installed. As far as I can tell, that seems sufficient to move an MTA from standard to optional. Installing a package which Depends (or Recommends) on an MTA will still pull one in as needed. Sysadmins who want a mail server can easily select the "mail server" task in tasksel, or otherwise install their mail server of choice. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120503172637.GA10017@leaf