On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 07:15:24PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Beeblebrox wrote: > > > Many ports, (specially the KDE-related ones) provide no option to disable > > network-related options. Usually these are things like samba-client, > > Avahi-mDNS* (with variants), and the like. Gnome usually provides a choice > > to disable gnome-vfs. > > > > I really don't understand why such ports enable those services by default, > me too. I don't think KDE is for anything serious but still it should just > be disabled by default and enabled at user choice. > > No special knobs for disabling should exist, but for enabling.
It is not because a program is linked against a library that it uses it for real. I don't know much kde, but I'm pretty sure I have a checkbox somewhere saying "activate mdns" or "deactivate mdns" you can have it installed on your system but not actually starting it. I general I do think ports/packages should offer as default what may fits the general needs easily. in this case if you are free to use/not use it via a checkbox, then the default right now is sane because another user with different needs will just have to click to activate it without having to build his own packages. regards, Bapt
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