On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 16:56 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Does it known if the machine is a laptop or not? Maybe even a specific > model? Not generically. > The reason I am asking is that during the first boot on my iBook I noticed > that a number of services was started that were completely useless on this > machine, because the hardware these services care for is nonexistant (and, > this being a notebook, can not be added, either). > > The services I remember of the top of my head were pcmcia, apm and a bunch > of stuff provided by the iprtools package (some SCSI mumbo jumbo, it seems). > > Would it be possible to teach anaconda the knowledge to disable services on > machines that have no chance of needing them, ever? This is a never-ending battle. The proper place for such a determination is with the service itself. Whether or not it's chkconfig'd on or not by default in its %post can be keyed off of something and then it's _in the package_ and you then avoid anaconda having to learn about every new hardware specific "service" that people decide to add. Jeremy
