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Re: installation report



On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> It is undesirable to run inappropriate services.
> It is a security risk and takes time at boot and shutdown.
> The number of daemons is really not very high, so the
> installation script is allowed to, and indeed should, tell me
> for each one what it is and does, and ask me whether I want it
> activated. No, I do not need cannaserver, diald, postgres, innwatch.

Do not install those packages, then. What you seem to expect is
probably against Debian philosophy. The "default" in Debian is that
packages providing a service run such service immediately after
installing the package.



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