Re: debian packages too active after mere installation
Hi Dan!
On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> By the way, another thing I hate about debian is: I want to install a
> program, slowly read its documents and man pages, then activate the
> features I want. But no, e.g. ledcontrol and indeed other led
> programs start playing with your leds right after you install them.
>
> So, I suppose the safe way to learn about a debian package is to poke
> around in the .deb on the CD, yuck.
Yes, and no. It depends. For daemons, there is work in progress that would
allow you to disable any you didn't configure yet. Otherwise, you are
correct, and this is an old flamewar.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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