Comment 27 for bug 94065

Sometimes people forget that normal users don't care one iota about
what a service is, let alone which are running on their machine

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:20 AM, plouf <email address hidden> wrote:
> "it's not a very common use case"
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> I wanted to desactivate avahi-daemon without uninstalling it.
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> I think ubuntu is generally use by desktop users.
> A new user who want to optimize the computer ressource want to disable service he  don't use every day without taking the risk to uninstall it.
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> Today there is no easy  way to do it.
> Sometimes we forget that normal users like "easy to use" graphical interface and for them editing files is not a solution.
> That is why I think it is a big issue.
> But if it get solved in the next release. It's Fine !
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94065
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> Title:
>  init: add non-destructive means to disable a job
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> Status in Upstart:
>  Triaged
> Status in “upstart” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
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> Bug description:
>  I need the ability to disable an event.d entry without removing the entry completely.  this is the equivalent of commenting a line in /etc/inittab.  this might be to temporarily disable a serial line getty, or whatever.
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