MTA in ubuntu deskop

[Erik Bågfors]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:14:22 +0100, Thibaut Varene
<faucon.millenium at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:24:02 -0800, Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 09:55:08AM +0100, Thibaut Varene wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:04:41 -0700, LaMont Jones <lamont.jones at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > >   lsb           Move to ship seed, document that one needs to install
> > > >                 lsb to have an LSB compliant system.
> > >
> > > I'll just comment on that issue: is breaking LSB compliance for
> > > default install a Good Thing (tm)?
> >
> > The question, as I see it, is "does the desktop need full LSB compliance"?
> > And I think the answer, at this stage, if lsb requires us to provide
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail, is "no".
> >
> > Users who need an LSB environment can install the package, which should
> > ideally bring them into compliance (though we don't know whether this is
> > true for Hoary).
> 
> I disagree. Being LSB compliant should be something a Linux
> distribution aim at. That's why the LSB project was founded, so that a
> user knows that when s/he has a LSB compliant distro, s/he can use
> third party software which rely on such compliance.

Let's see... at least Suse, Redhat and Mandrake requires you to
install a lsb-package to be lsb-compliant. Why can't ubuntu?

(well,, this was true for redhat 9, mandrake 9 and Suse 9.1... don't
know of newer versions)

/Erik