Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes: > On 2013-05-12 18:51:10 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> ]] Vincent Lefevre >> >> > I agree for these services (though Apache is useless after just >> > being installed, as one just has a dummy web page). >> >> So useful, since you can then put files into the docroot and serve those >> files. > > But the admin needs to do something (e.g. put these files) after > installing Apache. *Just after* Apache is installed, it is useless > and it takes useless resources. It is probably not much a problem > at this time since one may think that something will shortly be > done to have useful pages, but such pages could also disappear in > the future. Let me explain with more details: > > My only use of Apache on some machine is because of sensord. But > it may happen that in a few months, I would no longer need sensord > and may remove the package. In this case, it would make sense to > stop the Apache daemon automatically in order to free some resources. > This would be dependencies between services...
If that's what you want it would make more sense to remove the apache package to free even more resources. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] http://www.hands.com/ |-| HANDS.COM Ltd. http://www.uk.debian.org/ |(| 10 Onslow Gardens, South Woodford, London E18 1NE ENGLAND
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