Hi Debian dudes! In Ubuntu we've had a discussion about setting a default mta[1]. For purposes of consistency, I believe it would be a good idea if any package that states a dependency on mail-transport-agent would also state a (the same, of course) preferred package providing mail-transport-agent, too. This ensures that all users who have no preferred mta gets the same mta. This eases the support and documentation burden significantly, while still allowing the user to install a different mta if he/she has a personal preference. However, since it's not likely that Debian and all its derivatives is going to agree on a preferred mta (Debian has traditionally preferred exim4, while Ubuntu traditionally has preferred postfix, just to name a few), it has been suggested to add a meta package (called default-mail-transport-agent or something to that effect) that each distribution can choose to make depend on its preferred mta. That limits the delta the derivatives will need to carry to just that package. All packages that currently "Depends: mail-transport-agent" will then be changed to "Depends: default-mail-transport-agent | mail-transport-agent". Thoughts? Flames? Let me have it! :) [1]: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-September/024290.html -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/
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