Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:37:43 +0100 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com> Subject: Re: Ports should provide knobs disabling unwanted network services Message-ID: <20130326183743.GF64932@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303261914340.1834@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <1364123355503-5798581.post@n5.nabble.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303261914340.1834@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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--XStn23h1fwudRqtG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 07:15:24PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2013, Beeblebrox wrote: >=20 > > Many ports, (specially the KDE-related ones) provide no option to disab= le > > network-related options. Usually these are things like samba-client, > > Avahi-mDNS* (with variants), and the like. Gnome usually provides a cho= ice > > to disable gnome-vfs. > > > > I really don't understand why such ports enable those services by defau= lt, > me too. I don't think KDE is for anything serious but still it should jus= t=20 > be disabled by default and enabled at user choice. >=20 > No special knobs for disabling should exist, but for enabling. It is not because a program is linked against a library that it uses it for real. I don't know much kde, but I'm pretty sure I have a checkbox somewhere saying "activate mdns" or "deactivate mdns" you can have it installed on yo= ur system but not actually starting it. I general I do think ports/packages should offer as default what may fits t= he general needs easily. in this case if you are free to use/not use it via a checkbox, then the default right now is sane because another user with diff= erent needs will just have to click to activate it without having to build his own packages. regards, Bapt --XStn23h1fwudRqtG Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlFR6vcACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EzovwCdGrZKUBEPkyQZYtxuMBrXl9PY fA0AnAiMXlDSaLsA5MmfSRNFylKsI/t8 =bnTN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --XStn23h1fwudRqtG--
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