Re: Packages should not Conflict on the basis of duplicate functionality
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:34:28PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote:
> I do not like the idea of a daemon starting up with a default
> configuration that I have not double checked upon installation. I
> consider automatically starting with no choice a misfeature.
I think I agree.
I got a rude start today when I saw messages of the form:
Sep 24 09:00:21 minion inetd[790]: linuxconf/tcp: unknown service
[linuxconf was going to provide a tcp service to enable people to
configure my machine and the only reason I stumbled across this was that
I'd customized my /etc/services file and hadn't merged in changes from
the .dpkg-dist copy?]
Perhaps there are people who want a "service enabled by default" policy,
and perhaps we should accomodate them. However, I'm not one of them
and I don't want any services turned on on some of my machines without
my explicit ok.
Yes I'm aware that some of these services might not have any security
bugs. So what?
--
Raul
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