Re: Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha

[Peter Robinson <pbrobinson gmail com>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Bill Nottingham<notting redhat com> wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram (sundaram fedoraproject org) said:
>> > If people don't care to get the local emails, perhaps a better solution
>> > would be coming up with a way to get that information to the user
>> > without email (rss? popup?).
>>
>> Yes, perhaps. Meanwhile ssmtp is a better default IMO.
>
> I don't necessarily think so. If you're doing a minimal install, you're
> more likely installing a server, in which case you expect more a mail
> infrastructure.

I somewhat disagree. A lot of the stuff I work on uses small installs
(live cd about 300 meg) and isn't a server. If your doing a server
install your also likely to know how to install a smtp server too.

Peter