too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 19 13:57:37 UTC 2007


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>>> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
>>>>> That's why I say "weak spot" - There is no "one-fits-all set of daemons
>>>>> to enable/disable" - Each situation is different, but there is hardly
>>>>> any means to customize an installation for an individual situation
>>>>> during installation with Fedora.
>>>> Anaconda, Kickstart, targeted and custom spins enable you to customize 
>>>> Fedora for individual situations. Don't they?
>>> Once you have a system up, or if you already have a system up, yes,
>>> there are means to customize, but during installation (esp. first time
>>> installation) - no, to a large extend, this doesn't apply.
>> What are you talking about?
> Two examples:
> 
> * user management - There is no way to reserve uids before installation,
> there is no way to custiomize nsswitch.conf, there is no way to
> configure network'ed homes.
> 
> * kickstart is only a means for advanced users, who are familiar with
> RH-based distros. It's not suiteable to "first-timers".

Seem completely unrelated to daemons which is the topic of conversation.

Rahul




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