Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 19:15:24 +0100 (CET) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports should provide knobs disabling unwanted network services Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1303261914340.1834@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <1364123355503-5798581.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1364123355503-5798581.post@n5.nabble.com>
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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.
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