Desktop system upgrade should not ask user about postfix environment
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Software Updater |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I was upgrading Ubuntu from hardy to jaunty via intrepid, so I can't remember if this happened during hardy to intrepid or intrepid to hardy. The system was originally installed as dapper and had been upgraded directly to hardy.
The graphical system upgrader asked the user to specify what kind of environment postfix (or was it exim, can't remember) is used in.
This kind of thing shouldn't happen. The system had always been in desktop use. The only non-default software installed were KMail, Flash Plug-in, Skype and additional fonts. An email delivery daemon had never been installed explicitly.
* Even if some component used postfix server behind the scenes, the user shouldn't have to deal with setting up postfix.
* The mythical average user isn't equipped to answer the question posed.
* The upgrade process shouldn't block on user input unnecessarily.
