On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 4:42 AM, Tommy[D] <tommy100 at gmx.de> wrote: > Ian Clarke schrieb: >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Zero3 <zero3 at zerosplayground.dk> wrote: >>>> The aim was to reduce the number of questions we ask during the >>>> installation to a minimum: on the basis that advanced users can change >>>> the settings they need afterwards, including whether the node >>>> auto-starts or not. >>>> >>> Indeed, yet that is one of the questions you probably *ought* to ask. >> >> I don't know - does mysql server ask this before it installs? I think >> so long as there is an option to disable, we should default to >> whatever is better for the network. The user has volunteered to run >> Freenet after all. Remember also that Napster probably wouldn't have >> worked if they hadn't defaulted to auto-running. Obviously Freenet != >> Napster, but the analogy is valid in this case. >> >> Ian. >> > > mysql server is installed, if i call the install "emerge mysql". And it only > starts on startup, if i > add it to startup "/etc/init.d/rc-update add mysql default". Nothing happens > automagicly at my > systems. This would probably be true for napster too, but i never tried it. > But maybe gentoo users are a minority?
Gentoo user are minority, Redhat, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Windows, all do this automatically. Btw, Gentoo Linux causes global warming! Needlessly recompiling everything uses power. Fossil fuels are used to generate that power. Hug a tree, use Debian.
