Agreed. The X maintainers (as one example) started doing that a while back. I run exim and a few other services like this (manually configured, sadly).
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 15:04, Florian Weimer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 01:42:01PM -0700, Adam Lydick wrote: > > > Is there any effort to reduce the number of services running on a > > default debian install? For example: a typical workstation user doesn't > > really need to have inetd enabled, nor portmap (unless they are running > > fam or nfs -- which isn't enabled by default) > > I think it's more important that services only bind to localhost after > installation (in the default configuration).
