please deactivate services by default!

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 23:24:29 UTC 2008


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Rahul Sundaram
<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dimi Paun wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sendmail startup should only be slow if your dns is broken or you've
>>>>> removed the localhost entry from your hosts file.  Either of those
>>>>> needs to be fixed anyway.
>>>>
>>>> Give me a break. What naive user would know what to do with
>>>> the thing? Even if it takes 200ms to load it's way too much.
>>>
>>> Users typically don't do anything directly with sendmail but during an
>>> install an alias for root should be set up so system messages reach
>>> someone
>>> who cares about the things logwatch and smartctl will send.
>>
>>
>> We've been saying this since Fedora 7 (at least, maybe longer). It's
>> never happened, I  don't know why.
>
> Not every developer is subscribed or reading all the threads here. If you
> want suggestions to actually reach the developers, it is always better to
> file a enhancement request in bugzilla.

I am aware of that. I wasn't complaining. I had come to the conclusion
that the devs had a reason for not doing. I can file an RFE if
necessary.

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