On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 04:35:29PM -0800, Darrell May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I would agree that your current direction of disabling services by default,
> allowing the user to easily enable via the e-smith-manager is a good
> procedure.
I'll clarify that slightly. I believe all _external_ services which
required username/password authentication must be disabled until
explicitly enabled. For example, IMAP and POP should be enabled, but
only for the local LAN. Similarly, webmail requires username/password
authentication on the external interface (possibly under cover of
SSL), and so should be disabled by default.
> What about the further thought for an uninstall option if for
> instance webmail isn't enabled why not offer a further option to uninstall
> all related packages to free disk space. Thoughts for future versions...
OK - my time for devil's advocate. Given that the total install is
less than 500Mb, I'm not sure that saving disk space is a real issue
these days. Have yuou tried to buy a <8GB disk (or is that <12GB)
recently? :-)
Gordon
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