On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 02:39:13PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Popcon shows that ~65-70% of Debian systems have exim4 installed. > 30-35% of users cared enough to remove exim, and another 7% or so seem to > have configured their systems to stop running it (at boot or otherwise) > without actually removing it.
That would break their system as daemons have no way to notify the user something is wrong. Instead, I bet that you read popcon's vote<installed that way -- which at least in this case nearly always means the user has the filesystem mounted noatime. Which is a damn reasonable thing to do, as it prevents every write from having its metadata cost doubled. Current Debian's default, relatime, sacrifices performance and causes unnecessary spin-ups, with the stated explanation being certain uses of mbox, a long-obsolete format that might be adequate at most for rare mail from daemons but not actual mail from live people[1]. And even that is fixable by making mail readers manually set the access time. [1]. How many non-technical folks you know who do not add fat attachments to a majority of mails? -- 1KB // Yo momma uses IPv4! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111012224525.ga16...@angband.pl
