some minor Core pruning

[Tom Lane]

Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot at laposte.net> writes:
>> There's no excuse for Postfix being in core, is there? It duplicates
>> basic functionality which is provided by sendmail.

> I didn't know you were doing bidi in english now.
> The usual sentence order would read

> "There's no excuse for Sendmail being in core, is there? It duplicates
> basic functionality which is provided by Postfix."

And then there's
	emacs vs vi (resp. your-emacs-clone vs my-vi-clone)
	postgres vs mysql
	your-web-browser vs my-web-browser
yadda yadda yadda.

You have to leave some room for personal preference.  If any one of
these projects were clearly superior to their competitors by every
measure, the competitors would be dead.  They aren't, and they aren't.

I think Fedora Core can afford to prefer "best of breed" projects for
inclusion, but that is not the same as saying "there can be only one".
That way leads to pissing off a lot of people you shouldn't have pissed
off ...

			regards, tom lane