Fedora keeps sendmail — for now [LWN.net]

Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 8, 2013 13:27 UTC (Thu) by Otus (guest, #67685)
In reply to: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now by drag
Parent article: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

> The /usr/bin/sendmail is a API and is one that many many things look for.

There are a lot of APIs that distros don't install by default.

Usually a package that uses such APIs should depend on other packages that
provide it.

I don't see how this is any different. Whether sendmail is installed by
default should depend only on whether other defaults depend on it.

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