On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 10:49:58AM -0700, David Bristel wrote: > > > Did you consider his point, though? Why would you install a service > > if you don't want it to run? > Simple answer here, if you install a group of packages during the install, you > may not realize what packages you have installed. For those who do custom > installs as the only way, you probably have never experienced what "Scientific > Workstation" may end up installing. If you are in a hurry, you may choose > that > option, then not spend the time picking through all the packages to remove the > ones you want. A possible solution would be a "daemon" flag to go on a > package, > and after the install, the installed daemons are listed. This is just an > idea, > but that's another subject.
This is basically what Red Hat does upon installation; it prompts you for which services to enable out of a list of installed daemons. Perhaps upon installation or a dist-upgrade, apt could list everything that had a "daemon" flag and prompt you to start it. That way we would avoid asking every time. -- Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://web.verbum.org/levanti PGP Fingerprint: A580 5AA1 0887 2032 7EFB 19F4 9776 6282 C207 843A