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. > I agree that what you're saying is what the standard should be, but other > packagers' understanding appears to be something closer to "if it's a > non-default package, install should enable since installing means you want > it". That understanding is not a very good one. One may end up installing packages containing services without specifically asking for them, eg. through "yum groupinstall" or dependencies. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
