On 13.06.2012 23:30, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 13/06/12 14:18, Felix Miata escribió:
I tried to remove all of procmail, sendmail and postfix with zypper rm. Zypper wanted to remove 42 packages, to wit:
Most (all?) of KDE3 nmh xf86-input-* xf86-video-* xkeyboard-config xmh xorg-x11 xorg-x11-driver-* xorg-x11-server
Can it not be (a) bug(s) that so much requires mail be installed?
This is part of the legacy of *nix, systems require an MTA installed even if not used.
It happends because there are applications that are only able to deliver mail with /usr/sbin/sendmail.
Yes, I see it as a bug, No.. it is not easy to fix.
That's not really true, most desktop systems do not need an MTA, e.g. Ubuntu has hasn't included a MTA in their desktop default install for years and Fedora has taken steps to remove it as well [*]. Even from the command line mutt or mailx nowadays support SMTP directly. * http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoMTA -- Guido Berhoerster -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org