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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 28 September 2010 23:39:41 Robert Collins wrote:
> Yes, you did, for clarity here - I'm not proposing to start
> *postgresql* dynamically [yet, the contract does permit it though]
> simply for performance reasons.

I'd really like to see some of the other external processes started on demand 
though.  For example, I object vehemently to these persistent services on my 
*desktop* machine:

 * Apache (and the rewrite script we use for Code)
 * Rabbit MQ (why is this installed when we're not even using it yet?)
 * Memcached

Rabbit is particularly annoying because it blocks shutdown on my machine when 
it hangs :/

Requiring all this stuff to be running persistently is a very large barrier to 
drive-by contributions.

Cheers
J