There's not a way to disable it at the moment, but I would accept a patch which added ./configure --disable-appliance.
Have you thought about distributing the supermin appliance? That should have no security update implications, and it's what we do in Fedora, precisely for this reason, also because it's much smaller. The issue is that supermin has lots of dependencies on the host. On VM hosts this is often a not very well taken by the admins. That's why I
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:04:46AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: [..snip..] thought about supplying the appliance seperately. Having supermin working would be a great thing nevertheless. BTW.: the recent work on the Debian packages should make some of the Ubuntu stuff superflous. Cheers, -- Guido