Am Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:30:53 +0100 schrieb Philipp Überbacher <hollunder@lavabit.com>:
Now I know what avahi and PA does, and I don't have a user for either, yet they are there. I don't have the slightest idea what CK and PK does, they don't have any tangible benefit for me, yet they are there. I'm not sure whether systemd will fall into the former or later category, but I'd be really surprised if it had any real benefit for me Yet I'm sure to have it on my machine within a year or so.
Me, too. I know that I have one or two entries in my Xfce menu for some avahi stuff, but I really don't know what this is for. It was just there as a dependency for another package. The only thing which has changed since I'm forced to using CK and PK is that I had to edit my .xinitrc and add a ck-launch-session, and that I now have again another daemon running on my system for features I had before, too, without these unnecessary, additional, resource eating stuff, which makes in the best case my system slower. But something doesn't work anymore without this CK and PK stuff. I currently can't remember what that was. The same with all those vfs daemons, which I really don't need and don't know what they are for. Or udisks-daemon. Some time it was just running on my system. I don't know why. I didn't start it by myself. I could access all my disks and devices without it before. Those developments are not always the best. And I'm really worried about them. I know, this is getting a bit off-topic. But it has to be said. Heiko