Re: New module proposal: gnome-user-share

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 17:02 +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
> Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 
> > > Not only is Apache quite a huge dependency to have, it is also very
> > > hard to package this into a generic distro where Apache comes
> > > preconfigured for heavy server use (and the same is true for most
> > > "big" httpds).
> > 
> > We're talking 3 megs of dependencies (and that's on a 64 bit system, so
> > probably about 2.5 megs on a 32-bit machine).
> 
> A point Patryk touched is that generic distributions will provide
> Apache packages configured to run at startup, so it is not just a
> matter of binary size.
> 
> What do distributors think?

As a data point, Fedora's httpd is disabled by default for exactly this
sort of reason (having it installed doesn't mean we want it running by
default).

Cheers