Ports should provide knobs disabling unwanted network services

[Beeblebrox]

Many ports, (specially the KDE-related ones) provide no option to disable
network-related options. Usually these are things like samba-client,
Avahi-mDNS* (with variants), and the like. Gnome usually provides a choice
to disable gnome-vfs.

I really don't understand why such ports enable those services by default,
then provide a warning along the lines of "if you are unhappy with the
security risk present through this service, uninstall the port... etc."

I usually end up hacking the Makefile and disabling the cr*p that I don't
want, then build.  I understand the purpose of those services, but as an
example, is net/mDNSResponder REALLY mandatory for everyone who intends to
use graphics/okular?




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