Chris Adams (cmad...@hiwaay.net) said: 
> Once upon a time, Garrett Holmstrom <gho...@fedoraproject.org> said:
> > While it may be debatable what benefit one might get from removing it 
> > from the default install, can we at least remove MTAs from @core to help 
> > make things easier for appliance folks?  One can still go in @base, 
> > which would make it continue to appear on all but the most minimal of 
> > installs.
> 
> Yeah, I just noticed tonight that sendmail is in both @Core and @Base
> (as well as @Mail Server).  Is there a particular reason it is in both?
> 
> Right now, it (or whatever the default provider of /usr/sbin/sendmail)
> should be in @Core, because cronie is mandatory and requires
> /usr/sbin/sendmail (until the rawhide version of cronie, which will log
> to syslog if there's no /usr/sbin/sendmail).
> 
> Why is sendmail also in @Base?

It was in @base. When @core was split off and cleaned up, but still needed a
MTA, it was added there so we had a consistent default.

Bill
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