Craig Sanders wrote: > i.e. there's a tiny minority who are inconvenienced by daemons being > enabled when a package is installed. there would be a huge majority who > would be inconvenienced if the reverse were true. it looks to me like > it's an either/or situation (i.e. no way of satisfying both parties > at once - mutually exclusive needs) so it's a pretty easy choice to > make...cause the minimum harm/hassle/inconvenience.
I'd just like to share something that came up the other day that makes me wish daemons starting by default could be disabled. I installed debian on a laptop with 16 mb of ram. To keep memory usage down, I want to turn off all daemons that I can. I made ssh be run from inetd, turned off gpm, etc. I left gpm installed because I know I'll want to use it rarely -- when I do I can just run it's init script by hand. All is fine so far, but I tihnk that when I upgrade these daemons, their postinsts will re-register them with update-rc.d, and I'll have to go turn them off again. -- see shy jo
