On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:02 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > > Not only is Apache quite a huge dependency to have, it is also very > > > hard to package this into a generic distro where Apache comes > > > preconfigured for heavy server use (and the same is true for most > > > "big" httpds). > > > > We're talking 3 megs of dependencies (and that's on a 64 bit system, so > > probably about 2.5 megs on a 32-bit machine). > > A point Patryk touched is that generic distributions will provide > Apache packages configured to run at startup, so it is not just a > matter of binary size. > > What do distributors think?
As a data point, Fedora's httpd is disabled by default for exactly this sort of reason (having it installed doesn't mean we want it running by default). Cheers _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
