On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:15 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:02 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote: > >> 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. > > That's exactly the problem. > > > 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). > > I doubt our server guys will get overly happy over the idea of > disabling a typical server daemon just so you can integrate it with > GNOME. I don't really think I want the server team to hate the GNOME > team any more.
Why is it enabled by default anyway? You would certainly need to configure things for it to work properly anyway. > Also there seem to be lighter alternatives: > http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=658773 How Perl can be considered light-weight, I'm not sure. It's 46 megs for Perl itself, and a whole slew of CPAN packages. OLPC people are trying to remove unneeded dependencies in a number of packages, and I don't think Perl will be installed, or needed on that system. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
