Too many default services on

[Izhar Firdaus]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Ola Thoresen <redhat at olen.net> wrote:
> Harald Hoyer wrote:
>  > Trying a yum everything install, I found out, that booting now takes
>  > endlessly.
>  >
>  > # ls /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S*|wc -l
>  > 95
>  >
>  > Please review, if the packages really need to be "on" after an install.
>  >
>  <snip>
>
>  I would argue that since this was an "everything" install, most of these
>  services are not enabled by default, but by installing the (non default)
>  package.
>  And that if I install a specific package, I would want the service to
>  start as default (or else I would not have installed the package in the
>  first place).
>

I would expect a service to not start until I configure it, and enable
it explicitly. Installing packages doesnt mean I want to use it ..
(eg: httpd's libs is a dependency for some app in fedora livecd .. but
that doesnt mean I want httpd to start on boot )



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