-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard Creighton wrote:
We are nearly on the same wavelength, I think....the difference is that it is slightly more than just 'disabling' something that is installed versus not installing something in the first place or at least minimizing the amount of stuff that is installed by removing most of the package. Simply installing the package and the libraries and then simply saying to Yast to not execute or use that code is a waste of space/memory and reduces the probability that older/smaller machines can load/run SuSE or upgrade from older versions to newer (bloated) versions that use the unwanted libraries and defaulted but unused programs that can't be removed even if disabled.
Well, today I have been told in a Bugzilla that the bug I reported in 2007 will not be solved because my hardware is old (it is a P-IV from Dec 2001). Which is to say, that openSUSE is officially tailored for newer hardware :-(
FWIW, I too disable PA, Beagle and a number of other defaulted 'features' in SuSE and prefer 3.5.10 KDE even though I devote a machine to testing 4.2 and until the other night, that machine ran also 11.1 until the factory update when it crashed and burned. When I want to DO anything, I return to 11.0 and 3.5.10, no Beagle or PA, use KMail, Firefox, VBox (when I need XP for something), read all of your, Freds, Larry's and David Rankins' posts religously (and a few others) and try to ignore the KDE4 rabble-rousers that shout so loud. Carlos, I'm not as fatalistic as you are, but usually you give good advice....but not to go elsewhere.... :(
Fatalist? Mmmm... I'll have to masticate that :-} Yes, I would prefer to being able to remove avahi, the same as I can remove PA. But I can't. I also can't update to 11.1 due to its bugs. That's life. But that will not make me think of migrating to another distro, though. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.1-ex-factory) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm5stwACgkQU92UU+smfQXSCgCeOoWRzz5zEusVstZdTSejAwXJ IxQAn1BjtpH/Qg0GnncTbI09IDhIWIN/ =ueR0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org