Default MTA for Fedora 7

[Thomas M Steenholdt]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2007 15:39, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
>> I'm not going to debate which mailer is best, but I have to say this...
>> Knowing that exim will win a dependency race for for /usr/sbin/sendmail,
>> including the package on the media and installing it by default (even if
>> it's to satisfy a dep.), comes very very close to being a conscious
>> decision.
> 
> If you don't have network enabled at install time (and the remote repo 
> enabled), then only the packages on media will be looked at for solving 
> smtpdaemon.  If its sendmail, and sendmail alone, it will win.  If it's 
> postfix, it will win.  Its all in what you put on the media.
> 
> 
Precisely. So let's make sure that whatever is put on the media, is 
something that we can somehow justify as our default packages for 
whatever. I don't care about which mailer is chosen as default, but I'm 
not too fond of the: "package XXX is the default choice for function 
YYY, because it won the *sort* contest". If we are going to include an 
MTA on the media at all - and install should of course be possible 
without network connectivity - we should be in charge of which mailer 
goes there. It should not be left to chance.

/Thomas