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[Rick Moen]

Quoting cout at eircom.net (cout at eircom.net):

[Debian network-daemon packages tend to be built to auto-start
if installed.]

> Of course the difficulty I have with this, is that sometimes I might
> like to install things that I may (or may not) use later, which is ok
> for some 'useful' cli utils, but for me is a real waste of space for
> gui stuff which ends up taking up lots and lots of space on my
> harddisk... sort of like Gnome and KDE.

Yes, I consider it a minor flaw.  You just get into the habit of 
checking your sysvinit scripts and processes after installing or
upgrading network daemons.

> I don't really remember the install process, except that working
> through all of the dependancies from the 3 disks I was attempting to
> install was a real nightmare, even OpenBSD 3.0 didn't seem quite as
> bad for this dependancy issue, but I might just be trolling.

Reiterating the earlier point:  You can avoid the nightmare entirely by
curing yourself of the bad RedHat-type habit of installing the kitchen
sink.  It's the classic Debian-newcomer's mistake.

> I got a little tired of Debian which had no obvious way of telling 
> it to get an ip via dhcp...

You can have your choice of either dhcp-client or pump.  Either one
works in the usual way.

-- 
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Rick Moen                                              -- Steven Wright
rick at linuxmafia.com