On 2013-11-16 3:25 PM, Manuel McLure <man...@mclure.org> wrote:
Why did the gentoo devs decide to build an smtp client into it capable of doing TLS, instead of simply requiring an MTA to be able to email emerge logs?
They didn't. The smtp client is part of Python, not part of portage. If you're developing in Python, you just call Python's mail API and let Python take care of the mail, instead of calling the local MTA. Easier and faster development. Cron is written in C where you don't get mail functionality for free so it's easier to use the local MTA.
Ah, ok, thanks... I missed the significance of Alans reference to python earlier...
