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While in this case distros include cups-browsed maybe as a feature, I always feel it's a bad thing Ubuntu/Debian (and maybe all deb-based distros?) automatically bring up almost all services upon installation. This means you can install a package and accidentially open another network service that's installed as a dependency.

You probably already know exim4 (to be fair it listens to only localhost by default, so maybe not a big deal). I just tried to install cups-browsed on one of my Debian machine, and it brought up two services that listens to 0.0.0.0 (cups-browsed and avahi).

This is not the case for Arch/Gentoo and CentOS-like distros.



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