On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 11:26 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote: > Hi, > > FWIW, this discussion happened about four years ago, see > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2004-November/msg00726.html > (note: the thread continues into December 2004) > > It might be useful for people to reread the thread there.
And in an interface that doesn't suck quite as much :) http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.desktop/22102 > On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:15 +0200, Patryk Zawadzki wrote: > > > 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. > > So one conclusion from that thread, if I remember correctly, is that the > fact that gnome-user-share is using Apache shouldn't disrupt any > system-wide configuration of Apache. The way it works is that > gnome-user-share feeds a separate configuration file to the Apache HTTP > daemon running in the user context. > > The fact we disable httpd in the default install in Fedora has nothing > to do with this; that's just Fedora policy, off topic for this > discussion. As a data point we've been shipping gnome-user-share in > Fedora since 2004 and haven't had issues with it or complaints from > people using Fedora as a web server. > > Hope this helps. > > David > > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list