about the fact that "services must not be enabled by default" I'm not sure to understand well You mean that the initscript provided by upstream should be changed ? for example with firebird we have this in the init script : # chkconfig: 345 80 20 # description: Start/Stop firebird database server # # This file belongs in /etc/init.d where it will be run # on system startup and shutdown to start the background # Firebird database server daemon ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides: firebird # Required-Start: $local_fs $syslog # Required-Stop: # Default-Start: 3 4 5 # Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6 # Short-Description: Firebird server database # Description: Starts and stops the Firebird database server backend daemon. ### END INIT INFO -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel