On Wed, 2015-04-01 at 09:03 +0300, Angelo Moreschini wrote: > - they are services (even if they are very common and important) > that have to be installed... Only if you need them. Just looking at what you've mentioned, previously. I'll make some *general* comments about them. SMART - if you're not actually going to pay attention to SMART warnings, there's little point having this service. A lot of people don't, so there's no point them running it. DHCP - if you're not meant to be a DHCP server (and you'd know about it if you were), then you don't need, and don't want, the DHCP server package installed and running. Most people are DHCP clients, not servers. You get the client software installed, by default. SAMBA - if you're not using SMB to share resources between computers (files and folders, or printers using SMB instead of directly accessing CUPS), then you don't need it. For instance, if you only have one computer, then you won't be trying to do this, and won't need it. Or, if *this* computer won't be sharing its resources to other computers, you won't need it, either. CUPS - if you don't have a printer, then you probably don't need it. I don't think you can remove it, not without also uninstalling a pile of other stuff you need (like almost the entire system, in previous releases of Fedora, and probably still does the same behaviour). You simply don't bother to turn the service on, if you don't need it. There is at least one case for using CUPS even if you don't have a printer, and that's for using it to create PDF or PostScript files. You can print to file, instead of to a printer, to create one of the. Though some programs have their own export of PDF function, that doesn't make use of CUPS. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.18.9-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 9 17:04:05 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
