Re: Conflicting alternatives
On 2021-02-21, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> The Mail Transport Agent Switcher. Almost sounds like a name invented by
>> the marketing department. Anyway, I guess the MTAS is irrelevant because
>> we're not concerned with Fedora here. But I suppose its existence proves
>> its usefulness---or maybe the word is practicality---at least for
>> Fedora users.
>
> I think Andrei answered it in the third post of the thread:
>
> "Installing and removing/purging packages has traditionally been very
> easy in Debian, such a mechanism would have limited benefits for
> significant added complexity."
For some reason his posts never seem to make it through to my news
server. Maybe there exists a special switch he toggles on or something.
> I have no experience of Fedora installations myself.
>
> Then, as frequently happens, the thread expanded into such options as
> distributing different tasks, that one MTA normally does, amongst
> several different MTAs. Even more complexity. No thanks. Configuring
> just one is enough for me.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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