On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:46:19 +0200 Luca Capello <l...@pca.it> wrote: > Hi there! > > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:18:04 +0200, Josh Triplett wrote: > > The 30-35% figure for users who have removed exim still make sense, > > though, to the extent that popcon numbers for a package with priority >= > > standard can make sense. > > > > In any case, I didn't intend the popcon numbers as any kind of proof, > > just a bit of very rough evidence about how many people have removed an > > MTA. > > I disagree on that, according to popcon we have 19.27% of users has > postfix installed, which could mean that ~90% of users has an MTA > installed. > > FWIW, I would say that the postfix numbers are more representative, > because they are the result of a specific choice.
The whole popcon thing is misleading - in many situations where you don't want an MTA you also will not install popularity-contest. The only time I see issues with things depending on an MTA is when someone mistakenly depends on 'at' or puts 'at' into a multistrap config then wonders where the extra Mb have gone.... -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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