On Tue, 6 Feb 2007, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
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.
I can only imagine the reactions if/when somebody submits some niche MTA into the repository mid-release that happens to get selected over exim.
That by itself /is/ a decision...
If the selection was truly random, it would be a slightly different thing ("see, we're carrying out a field-test to see which MTA is the best by installing random MTA" :) but as it stands... yum-randomizer plugin, anyone ;)
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