Jesse Keating jkeating@redhat.com wrote:
On Tuesday 06 February 2007 15:48, Thomas M Steenholdt wrote:
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.
I really really don't want to make that decision, because no matter _what_ decision I make, people with pitchforks are going to come after me. So I'm perfectly happy to make _no_ decision and let the tool sort it out.
That by itself /is/ a decision...
Yes, I know about the pitchforks and all, and can't say I envy your position. But MTA is just one of the areas where there are several alternatives (vi vs emacs vs Xemacs, bash vs ash vs dash vs zsh vs ...) plus the many "Do we include ...?" Better set up an uniform way to decide such questions, just leaving them to "random" doesn't cut it.