Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> writes: > Now please, do the same reasoning with some other services, > like Apache, pure-ftpd, or bind, and explain to me why you would > like to have these installed, but not working.
As a developer I have often found use for having Apache installed, just so I can start it as a user with an ad hoc configuration. This is useful for testing the code I work on which can be either apache modules or mod_perl applications. For the same reason I have nginx installed, to be able to perform experiments with how nginx needs to be configured to perform different tasks. I don't need any of these packages to start a service listening on port 80 serving some default set of pages. As I don't have any other webserver installed it is not a problem as such that one of them ends up listening on port 80, but I have always found it a bit bothersome that I just get a random deamon listening on port 80. It have never bothered me enough to complain, but if I have been using nginx on port 80 and stuff then suddenly broke after installing apache (and rebooting) I might have been quite a bit irritated. I am not complaining, just describing a scenario for having Apache installed without wanting to use it as the system webserver. I have never experience the same use cases for bind nor pure-ftpd. //Makholm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ehd7cfv2....@vps1.hacking.dk
