Bug#714634: [lsb-discuss] Clarification of general LSB requirements

On Thu, 2013-07-11 at 08:33 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> No, you aren't agreeing.  I'm saying that *either* lsb-core should prefer
> lsb-invalid-mta, *or* lsb-invalid-mta should not exist.  lsb-invalid-mta,
> without a Provides: mail-transport-agent, *does* satisfy the cron issue.

Okay, I misunderstood.

> And no, this would not solve the problem that lsb-invalid-mta was introduced
> to solve, which is that *you can't have a working mta without prompting the
> user for configuration*.  There are plenty of implementations of
> mail-transport-agent in Debian and Ubuntu which don't require running a
> daemon (nullmailer, ssmtp), but if you expect to use them to send mail, you
> still need them to be configured, and that's what this package is intended
> to avoid.

P1) You can't have a working MTA without prompting the user for
configuration.
P2) Prompting the user for configuration is bad.
P3) A non-working MTA is bad.
C) Therefore, the solution is to install a non-working MTA.

I... what? I'm not sure I have anything more to contribute to this
discussion.