On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Jon Masters <jonat...@jonmasters.org> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 10:09 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:58:50AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >> > Why are you complaining? If your package needs an MTA - put in a Requires! >> >> If we follow the general state of things: "if a package might need >> something, toss it in as a requires!", this will totally defeat the purpose >> of the comps change, since it will get pulled in by something important at >> some point. Rsyslog, for example, can send output via e-mail. >> >> Having a very simple mail-queue-and-relay program as an alternative to >> sendmail seems like a better choice than just ditching it. > > My previous objection was based on the precedent it sets. I don't want a > "Desktop" distribution in Fedora. I want a server-usable distribution. > Sure, it's just a dep and one can go install an MTA. But today it's > killing the MTA, tomorrow it's removing something else that's useful on > the server side of things. I want to see that trend stop and reverse.
Its NOT killing the MTA. In most cases you won't see any difference. Its removing the mandatory option in the comps. There are dozens of packages that depend on /usr/bin/sendmail and they will install a MTA as a dependency. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
