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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by icebraining on Thursday November 16, 2017 @07:01AM (#15712002)
Also, it installs exactly what you want, instead of dozens of tangentially-related "suggested packages".

So does Debian, if that's what you tell it you want (either on the config file or as a CLI argument). Even without that, while it may suggest a full MTA by default, you can ask it for another solution and it'll suggest a simple mailer (like bsd-mailx).

I don't dispute that Arch's defaults guide you to a simpler system, but it's not really hard to start from Debian netinstall and add just what you need, package by package.

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by majewsky on Thursday November 16, 2017 @08:52AM (#15712581)
> you can ask it for another solution and it'll suggest a simple mailer

Exactly. The correct solution for me is "no mailer at all".

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Re:Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off by icebraining on Thursday November 16, 2017 @08:59AM (#15712633)
Right, so tell it not to install the recommended packages, like I said.
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