Re: too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:04 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 16:46 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > 
> >>> That's why I say "weak spot" - There is no "one-fits-all set of daemons
> >>> to enable/disable" - Each situation is different, but there is hardly
> >>> any means to customize an installation for an individual situation
> >>> during installation with Fedora.
> >> Anaconda, Kickstart, targeted and custom spins enable you to customize 
> >> Fedora for individual situations. Don't they?
> > Once you have a system up, or if you already have a system up, yes,
> > there are means to customize, but during installation (esp. first time
> > installation) - no, to a large extend, this doesn't apply.
> 
> What are you talking about?
Two examples:

* user management - There is no way to reserve uids before installation,
there is no way to custiomize nsswitch.conf, there is no way to
configure network'ed homes.

* kickstart is only a means for advanced users, who are familiar with
RH-based distros. It's not suiteable to "first-timers".

Ralf