First of all hello dear fedora contributors. I'm new on this list, so please be indulgent if I don't follow all the rules yet. And excuse my (sometimes) poor english, that's because I'm French.
My question was for the spin maintainers : There is a feature (nearing completion) that was created in order to remove the default MTA from the default install. As of today I downloaded the Fedora 14 beta KDE x86_64 live spin (by the way, great job and thank you, the KDE integration is better than ever, still a few quirks, but everyone on the bugzilla is reactive when kindly asked) and have seen sendmail still installed and sendmail service enabled by default. But the feature allows for uninstallation, without compromising the rest of the system. Try a 'yum remove sendmail' : it *IS* definitely possible to remove it without having redhat-lsb, cron and a bunch of things removed.
So (here it comes) why not remove sendmail from the default spins I think the spins are desktop-oriented and desktop users don't need MTA, right ? It could help save 1.5M according to yum, and allow faster boot of the live spin.
That was just a suggestion, what is your opinion ?
regards,
Corentin
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 06:38:22PM +0200, Corentin Perard wrote: <SNIP>
So (here it comes) why not remove sendmail from the default spins I think the spins are desktop-oriented and desktop users don't need MTA, right ? It could help save 1.5M according to yum, and allow faster boot of the live spin.
That was just a suggestion, what is your opinion ?
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I personally am all for this and think it would be a great idea. I have admittedly lost track of the NoMTA feature because of other aspects of life that more recently became massive time sinks, but in the end I think all spins would be better off without a default MTA.
-AdamM
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Corentin Perard