please deactivate services by default!

[Les Mikesell]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:24:45AM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> ...I still feel that this is a problem. Scenario:
>>
>> If we're going to disable important system functionality, it's  
> 
> It is acritical system functionnality for your use case. But for other
> use cases it is something annoying, it fills /var/spool with unneeded
> data, there is a daemon running (only listening on localhost, but
> still). your use case is not superior to the use case of a user not
> wanting to have a smtp daemon in the default case.

So, before taking away standard functionality that is expected on any 
unix-like system, perhaps you could ask the the user in question if he 
cares if important system messages are quietly discarded - and if not, 
where he would like them to be delivered.

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   Les Mikesell
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