> Why would you keep something around if you don't want to run it? Debian > makes the (correct) assumption that if you've installed something, you > want to run it. If i install bind, it will assume i want it to run. I may want to look at the package's documentation, or use some tool that's not by packaged itself. > If i install exim, it will first configure it for me (prompting me), and > then assume i want to run it. Why should portmap be any different? The > question you should be asking is, why is portmap installed by default? > Similiarly, is there something that can be done during installation that > asks the user if certain things (nfs) that require portmap should be > installed. If there's nothing that depends on portmap, then default to not > installing portmap. Having daemons shut off by default is not the way to > go, however. Perhaps a configuration option that is checked at install time to decide whether or not to uncomment a "#exit 0 #APT" near the top of init scripts? -- Dwayne C. Litzenberger - dlitz@dlitz.net
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