rawhide report: 20050417 changes

nodata fedora at nodata.co.uk
Sun Apr 17 21:15:11 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 23:02 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> søn, 17.04.2005 kl. 22.45 skrev nodata:
> > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 16:43 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > > Two questions:
> > > > 
> > > > Was slocate *really* disabled just because of laptop users?
> > > > 
> > > > Please can we have "if it's installed, it's enabled" behaviour?
> > > 
> > > 'if it is installed, it is enabled' is INCREDIBLY dangerous.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > in general all services should be disabled by default.
> > > 
> > > -sv
> > 
> > True for networked services, why for this?
> 
> It can definatly be annoying for stationary systems as well, especially
> those who isn't booted to often. Every time you try to use it, it gets
> überslow...
> 

Perhaps, but the justification for disabling it seems to be:
1. Laptops
2. Err.. that's it.
and disabling such a common useful tool with next to no justification
seems, well, bizarre.





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