Too many default services on

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 03/31/2008 11:07 PM, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Monday 31 March 2008, Chris Ricker wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, John Dennis wrote:
>>     
>>> My understanding is rpm's which install a service do *not* start the
>>> service in %post via chkconfig for all the reasons cited in the thread
>>> (i.e. the sys admin or owner decides what should be running, how it's
>>> configured,e etc. merely installing an rpm should not start a hidden
>>> service). There are a minority of exceptions, services which must run to
>>> make the system usable, these are well known. It is permissible to
>>> perform a condrestart in %post, but this is just respecting the existing
>>> configuration on the box.
>>>       
>> AFAIK, there are no guidelines -- look through the wiki and see if you can
>> find any?
>>     
>
> I can't find any and I'm a bit surprised about that - I think there was a 
> recommendation in the fedora.us guidelines that recommended "everything off 
> unless there's a good reason for it to be on by default" which IMO is a good 
> rule of thumb.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets#head-69c816fcf14e5130694c81f1ffa17a553ac94302 
is the closest match I've found