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From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Subject: Re: Ports should provide knobs disabling unwanted network services
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On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Beeblebrox wrote:

> Many ports, (specially the KDE-related ones) provide no option to disable
> network-related options. Usually these are things like samba-client,
> Avahi-mDNS* (with variants), and the like. Gnome usually provides a choice
> to disable gnome-vfs.
>
> I really don't understand why such ports enable those services by default,
me too. I don't think KDE is for anything serious but still it should just 
be disabled by default and enabled at user choice.

No special knobs for disabling should exist, but for enabling.