I'm running Gentoo and fluxbox for precisely the reasons you describe. Alex. On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:03 PM, Joe Hartley <jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2009 15:28:38 +0200 > Fons Adriaensen <fons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Anyone knows how to get rid of that ~/.gvfs thing >> and its associated daemons ? Permanently ? I don't >> run Gnome so I don't want it any more than I want >> DesktopDirs, console session managers and other >> hideous things that slowly but surely are turning >> Linux into something that is even worse than Windows. >> >> According to my book the .gvfs thing is malware, as >> it even prevents root from cleaning up the mess. > > THIS. > > I run a very simple system. I use Fluxbox as my window manager, and > try to strip my machines (especially my studio machine) down to the > bare essentials. In the past (up to about FC7), it's been easy to > run only the stuff I want running. No sendmail needed? Gone. > > Packages like pulseaudio and gvfs are only getting in the way of > doing what I want to do, or take up resources I would rather not > give a single bit up to having them run. > > Fons is right on the money when he says that Linux is being turned > into something as bad as Windows. (Sorry, Fons, it couldn't be worse!) > > I thought I was free from having to "roll my own" stuff a long time > ago. I really don't want to go back to spending days compiling and > configuring just because so many things in the current distros can't > be turned off. I like Fedora, I really do, but I'd love to see it > give more control back to the user and not assume I need every package > under the sun. > > -- > ====================================================================== > Joe Hartley - UNIX/network Consultant - jh@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Without deviation from the norm, "progress" is not possible. - FZappa > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user > -- Parchment Studios (It started as a joke...) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user
