Questions regarding lsb-invalid-mta
Hi all,
I'm looking for some explanation regarding the lsb-invalid-mta package.
I'm not quite sure where to start, although perhaps we can begin with an
excerpt from the package description:
"This package contains nothing else than a fake /usr/sbin/sendmail
command to fulfill the LSB's requirement of providing this command
without requiring an MTA to get installed"
Huh? How does this "fulfill" anything? The requirement is that the
sendmail command can be used to send mail, not just that some command
called sendmail should exist, regardless of what it actually does (or
does not do). Applications which are designed to run on LSB-compliant
systems expect to be able to send mail using this interface, and if they
can't, then the system is not LSB compliant. Trying to pretend that it
is just makes things worse.
I won't even get into the next paragraph of the package description - is
there anyone who can explain the reasoning behind this approach?
/Aaron
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