Rahul Sundaram (sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
This is not the only use case or even the most common one. Live
CD's for
example don't need a mail server. You can't expect desktop users to go
and read root mail anyway. Unless there is something better, mail server
just add to the startup time. A completely waste.
That's a lovely argument, and if we were talking about the live cd or
th desktop, it might actually have a point in this discussion. LiveCDs
and the desktop already include the base group, which defines a MTA.
Changing the core group does not change this.
The orginal question was that you get exim as the MTA if you only
install the Core group (uncheck everything).
Fedora users installing it on a server (they do exist), especially as
a
a mail server are going to be way less than desktop users. We are just
following a legacy here. It doesn't provide any real benefit at all to
the large majority of users. Since some of the packages expect a mta,
shove in ssmtp and be done with it.
Congratulations, you've now installed TWO mtas on every livecd install.
Happy?
Bill