please deactivate services by default!

[Rahul Sundaram]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dimi Paun wrote:
>>>> Sendmail startup should only be slow if your dns is broken or you've
>>>> removed the localhost entry from your hosts file.  Either of those
>>>> needs to be fixed anyway.
>>> Give me a break. What naive user would know what to do with
>>> the thing? Even if it takes 200ms to load it's way too much.
>> Users typically don't do anything directly with sendmail but during an
>> install an alias for root should be set up so system messages reach someone
>> who cares about the things logwatch and smartctl will send.
> 
> 
> We've been saying this since Fedora 7 (at least, maybe longer). It's
> never happened, I  don't know why.

Not every developer is subscribed or reading all the threads here. If 
you want suggestions to actually reach the developers, it is always 
better to file a enhancement request in bugzilla.

Rahul