On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 08:55:11AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Steve Langasek (vor...@debian.org):
> > If this were put to the TC, I can't see any way that this would be anything > > more than a poll of the personal preferences of the members of the TC. If > > someone who's in a position to make this decision decides they'd like to > > delegate the decision to the TC, then ok, I suppose we can decide it that > > way; but otherwise I don't see any reason that a vote of the TC is a better > > way to decide this than any other arbitrary method... > Well, I grant the TC members for being wiser than just giving their > personal preferences and ponder the consequences of various options > when it comes to a technically related problem. My point is precisely that I don't think there are any salient technical advantages of one over the other. Either postfix or exim4 meets our needs for a default MTA, and both have packages that appear to be well-supported by their maintainers and by the community; so as a TC member I could only vote for postfix because I don't *like* exim4 (and its packaging), and I do run postfix everywhere. I.e., it's a question of personal preference; I can express the reasons for my preference in terms of technical features of the packages, but it still comes down to a popularity contest in the end. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
