On Aug 02, Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@dion.org.ua> wrote: > What is "use"? The maintainers decides what are the prevalent use cases of the package and try to use defaults which are appropriate for the largest number of users. > For example rsync package provides both "rsync" client and > rsync daemon. Both cases are "use", right? Yes, and very few people use standalone rsync servers. > Another example is dovecot-imapd. It's possible to use it in > preauthenticated mode. In such case no system-wide daemon is required and > mail client should just start imapd and talk with it using stdin/stdout. Again something which is very uncommon. > Also some services may be needed only sometimes (like ejabberd on laptop > when developing some XMPP stuff). This corner case could be applied to just about everything. > Or "tor" package that also provides system-wide tor daemon. At the same > time it's possible to use tor individually by every user and start it only > when needed. At least on laptops. And this one too. In summary, you need to use some common sense and knowledge of the packages involved and their users. -- ciao, Marco
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