Ports should provide knobs disabling unwanted network services

[Florent Peterschmitt]

If you want, you can submit a little patch adding choice to disable
these options. You'll see if it is adopted or not, but you have more
chance to get your request done with something than without.

Le 24/03/2013 11:09, Beeblebrox a écrit :
> 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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