RFC: Sendmail deprecation ?

[Cy Schubert]

In message <201712140202.vBE22stW041959 at mail.karels.net>, Mike Karels 
writes:
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 05:45:57PM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> > > Not really silly.
>
> > It's silly to be in the default install on an arm board IMHO.
>
> > mcl
>
> Presumably dealing with this issue is one of the goals of turning base
> into packages, and hopefully there can be different defaults for
> different architectures or profiles.  Removing just sendmail won't get
> you much space back (especially if you just remove /usr/sbin/sendmail,
> which is just a symlink to mailwrapper).  A small arm board is more
> likely to be single-purpose, but it's hard to guess what that purpose
> might be.  I certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility of such a board
> originating mail, though.

Especially with  meta-packages for desktop, mail server, FAMP (FreeBSD, 
Apache, MySQL, PHP), network infrastructure, and other general server, or 
whatever else. What comes to mind are RPM groupings Red Hat has.

At $JOB we use HPSA. Packaged base would allow us to play better in this 
space too.


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Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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