Most (all?) packages providing a daemon or other service will start it when installed, without asking the user first. Is there a reason? I often want to have such services ready for use (with documentation and configuration files), but not started immediately, i.e. not running by default.
One example is that I chose the dial-up packages when installing Debian for the first time (I *sometimes* use PPP). The problem is that it automatically tried to start ISDN (though I don't use that) the next time I rebooted and my Ethernet connection was lost! Another example is the telnet daemon, which was started automatically though I don't want to run it permanently (I want to choose, depending on the netenv configuration). A third example (again after the first-time installation): I had to choose between gdm and kdm, without being able to choose none of them. As X wasn't configured yet, I couldn't do anything and had to boot in single user to remove these packages. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> - 100% validated (X)HTML - Acorn Risc PC, Yellow Pig 17, Championnat International des Jeux Mathématiques et Logiques, TETRHEX, etc. Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
