[Bug 3073] hula issues with the mail-transport-agent virtual package

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Public bug report changed:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/3073

Comment:
Trent Lloyd wrote:

>Public bug report changed:
>https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/3073
>
>Comment:
>This bug has absolutely nothing to do with hula (despite the title) -
>it's a generic 'issue' - simple fact is any server system should have a
>MTA.
>
>If you want to remove hula but put postfix back you can do so like this
>
># apt-get install postfix hula-
>
>and then, if you want to purge hula (delete its configuration files)
># dpkg --purge hula
>
>And whether HULA is mature or not is not a place for bug reports, please
>take such comments elsewhere, some people are using it succesfully so
>its available for people to use or try if they wish.
>
>  
>
you know remarks like this make me NOT want to post the many bugs I've 
found in ubuntu!  The original statement was that hula has no business 
removing mysql-server without asking first.  It doing so makes a HUGE 
assumption that no other program has use for the sql server or its 
databases.  Reinstalling a server that has perhaps already been 
configured by many other programs ( this would occur if hula was the 
last to be installed ) and consqequently having to rebuild all those 
configs, would REALLY PISS ME OFF!  This has nothing to do with wether 
or not a server needs an MTA.  That is a seperate debateable issue, that 
is not for here.  I don't disagree, but its a mute point.  As to where 
the recommendation came from, ubuntu's very spotty documentation lists 
HULA as the recommended mail server without even so much as a mention of 
postfix. 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDocumentation?action=show&redirect=NewToUbuntu 

Troy