Why do I need mDNSResponder/howl?

[Guy Fraser]

On Fri, 2005-14-01 at 10:36 -0600, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 10:46 -0500, David Cary Hart wrote:
> > This is a spectacular waste of bandwidth. Cannot we assume that EVERYONE
> > reconfigures services after install? Don't want it on your hard drive? -
> > "rpm -e". 
> > 
> 
> Don't pick on the man, he's got a point. More and more things are
> getting installed as time goes on, and while some of those are needed
> some are bloat. For routers, firewalls, and servers, I routinely remove
> nearly 40% of the installed packages... *don't* tell me that all those
> packages were needed, that's ridiculous. Questioning the status quo is
> always valid, since that's how we make progress.
> 
> If you don't like his thread, ignore it... you have a delete key. But
> don't try to shut people up! That's rude, uncalled-for, and against
> Fedora's best interests. People like Dave are the ones who actually
> speak up and suggest improvements in the OS for future versions, so I
> suggest we value every voice we can get.
> 
> And no, we cannot and will not assume that EVERYONE must reconfigure
> services after install, damnit. We can and will search for the optimal
> package sets for each configuration, because SOME OF US want Fedora to
> be as good as possible.
> 
> Sheesh.
> 
> -- 
> Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>
Good points.

In a later post you refer to "comps.xml" I'm not sure what that is, 
but I will guess it has something to do with the default packages 
installed when selecting the type of install.

I have a question:

Does it declare which packages can not be removed from a 
category during custom install?

I wonder if there were enough people interested, would it be 
possible to either make available additional default 
install classes. If so maybe options for a router and one 
for a developers workstation.

Off the top of my head, I recall there used to be some kind 
of utility used to generate a list of packages that could be 
used for custom package selection during install. If there 
is still such a feature, would it be possible to have an 
optional install method where you could use a "Have Disk" 
type option so people could share custom install configs?

This doesn't affect me personally, because I don't mind 
spending some time picking what I want, but it seems to 
be a point of contention for some other people.