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Easy choices!
Easy choices!
Posted Feb 24, 2005 9:42 UTC (Thu) by Tet (subscriber, #5433)In reply to: Easy choices! by ncm
Parent article: How would you shrink Fedora?
*obviously* sendmail(?!) and probably exim should go, leaving postfix.
Obvious to you, perhaps. From my perspective, you could easily lose exim and postfix, but sendmail must stay. Different people have different requirements, which is why the task of pruning things like this is so difficult. I could easily accept losing OO.o, for example -- abiword and gnumeric are better applications with more long term potential anyway. But many people would disagree with me.
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Easy choices!
Posted Feb 24, 2005 10:13 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Besides, MTAs are tiny, and changing away from them is really hard: they're just about the last packages one should consider dropping.
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Posted Feb 24, 2005 17:49 UTC (Thu) by epithumia (subscriber, #23370) [Link]
They're canning Exim because it's so well documented that the documentation takes up too much space.
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Posted Feb 24, 2005 16:53 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link]
I could easily accept losing OO.o, for example -- abiword and gnumeric are better applications with more long term potential anyway.I am also sorry to see abiword and gnumeric go, since both are stable and (relatively) lightweight alternatives to OO.o. My disappointment is tempered by the fact that I don't actually use Fedora Core anymore.
Perhaps OO.o should be on a disc of its own. It's huge, and either you use it or you don't.
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Posted Feb 25, 2005 0:54 UTC (Fri) by syndicate (guest, #27535) [Link]
<i>Obvious to you, perhaps. From my perspective, you could easily lose exim and postfix, but sendmail must stay.</i>
Pray tell, why would you still use sendmail?