On Sun, 03 Oct 1999, Raul Miller wrote: > Ok, try this on for size: > > How many network services do you get if you are doing if you decide to > install cfs? > > How many if you decide to install crossfire-sounds? > > [Aside: obviously there's a difference between not accepting a connection > and accepting a connection then dropping it. Very occasionally this > makes a difference from a security standpoint.]
Yep, Also, when I installed Debian on my home machine, I went through selecting packages for two hours using dselect, and I didn't think much about each one of them, or I would have been there selecting the whole night. Eg, I noticed there was an YP client available, I thought "cool, I'll install that and do some tests on how that works later". Afterwards I happened to notice that my ISDN router connected and disconnected all the time, and traced that back to the YP client that was up and running when I thought I had only installed it, not run it.. Of course both points in this discussion are valid, all users _can_ go through dselect for half a day, deselecting all network apps that they don't need, but you can't seriously consider many people to do this. Myself, I do it the easy way, ie install everything, boot up, remove half of the rc* things and strip inetd.conf and so on, but I won't expect new users to do so. Most new users just install it, and don't even know about half of the daemons they are running, so it really might be a good thing to add one question about running all daemons or not. /Staffan
