On 08/27/2009 07:02 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Rahul Sundaram said:
> There is no real justification for a MTA to be enabled
> by default on a large majority of systems for Fedora users and it
> reduces startup time and hogs resources unnecessarily.
If _any_ MTA is increasing startup time by a significant amount or
hogging resources unnecessarily, that's a bug in the MTA. What are the
open BZ numbers for sendmail hogging resources?
Tossing out random BS doesn't exactly help your argument.
If you want to disagree, I think you can find better ways to do that but
my point is simply that any daemon by default where it is not necessary
for majority of users = resource waste. Incidentally, there *are*
distributions including cron but not a mta by default.
Anyway a feature proposal has been made at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoMTA
We will get off inertia and do something about it now.
Rahul