Keith Sharp wrote:
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:16 -0500, Joseph Harnish wrote:
I was reading http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DefaultServices to see what was has been talked about on it about disabling different services and I have a couple of possible additions.
This is probably just a Hint for laptop users. On my laptop I use NetworkManager to handle the network connections. So I deactivated my eth0 and my wlan0 from starting when the computer boots. I had both so if I was docked it would get an IP or if I were wireless it would also work. But this slowed down my boot up a bunch.
From reading through Keith's comments it seems there is a handful of
services that would come in handy for a Laptop user, some for a Desktop user and others for a Server. I think it would be a good idea to create some default service profiles. Either just document them on the wiki or actually have some default profiles in the Service Configuration tool so a newer user can just apply a profile to their system without having to know what nifd is or what rpcgssd is.
I haven't tried a recent Rawhide (post anaconda yumification) install, is the plan to still include the different types: server, workstation, laptop, custom? If yes, then this could be used to switch between which services are to be activated. The other place, potentially, to do this is in firstboot.
It is probably worth opening an RFE bugzilla against either anaconda or firstboot.
Keith.
This is definitely not something that belongs in Anaconda. firstboot might work. Having appropriate defaults set in the RPMs would be best, then further profiles/customization can be handled post-install.