Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Am Freitag, 25. August 2006 16:20 schrieb Tom Lane:
>> It eats rather a lot of disk space for a package that might just be
>> getting loaded as part of a system install, with no likelihood of
>> actually being used.
> Wouldn't the system install start the init script at the end of the
> installation process anyway?
No, it doesn't. (The Red Hat RPMs in fact did that ... for about
a week ... until I was told in no uncertain terms that we don't
start unnecessary daemons by default.)
regards, tom lane