On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 08:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > No, you aren't agreeing. I'm saying that *either* lsb-core should prefer > lsb-invalid-mta, *or* lsb-invalid-mta should not exist. lsb-invalid-mta, > without a Provides: mail-transport-agent, *does* satisfy the cron issue.
Okay, I misunderstood. > And no, this would not solve the problem that lsb-invalid-mta was introduced > to solve, which is that *you can't have a working mta without prompting the > user for configuration*. There are plenty of implementations of > mail-transport-agent in Debian and Ubuntu which don't require running a > daemon (nullmailer, ssmtp), but if you expect to use them to send mail, you > still need them to be configured, and that's what this package is intended > to avoid. P1) You can't have a working MTA without prompting the user for configuration. P2) Prompting the user for configuration is bad. P3) A non-working MTA is bad. C) Therefore, the solution is to install a non-working MTA. I... what? I'm not sure I have anything more to contribute to this discussion. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
