On 09/26/2011 11:46 AM, Dennis Schridde wrote:
> Am Montag, 19. September 2011, 18:46:25 schrieben Sie:
>> Am Montag, 19. September 2011, 09:56:47 schrieb Pat Riehecky:
>>> Adding it shouldn't be too much work, but from the distribution side we
>>> don't want to force all our users to run a "sending only" mail server
>>> (or more) unless they actually want to.  I might instead add a check in
>>> the script where, if sending mail doesn't look possible, it simply
>>> doesn't try to send it.  That way people don't have to worry about
>>> surprise software installation on their next update.  I know I'd freak
>>> out if suddenly my system is running sendmail/postfix when it wasn't
>>> before.
>> It does not seem that mailx requires sendmail/postfix (says "rpm -qR
>> mailx"). So adding the dependency should be safe.
> Has this info I gave been considerd?
> Has anything been decided on this issue, yet?
>
> --Dennis

Sorry about that, I thought I'd replied to this...... seems my memory is 
a bit off.

We've added mailx as a dependency since it doesn't pull in anything 
extra (in terms of mail system packages).  It should be in fastbugs 
later this week.

-- 
Pat Riehecky
Scientific Linux Developer