Brian K. White said the following on 10/26/2008 07:59 PM:
I don't know that tomorrow I won't suddenly have a need for ldap, and so I'm perfectly happy that my system is ready to do it even though I never used it so far. It's a common enough thing that support should be in there.
That's a specious argument. I use MySQL for my applications, but I *might* one day want to use Oracle or DB2. That doesn't mean I *have* to have them loaded right now. I'm happy to have them as installable when I need them. Support for them is there when I need it. Just like I might one day want to use Gnome or XFCE, but I don't have to have them loaded right now ... but they are there to be installed if and when I need them. Just like .... and so on. The logical corollary to your argument, Brian, is to load up *everything* since you don't know that one day you might have a need for it, even though you've never used it so far. -- The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. --Thomas Jefferson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org