On Tuesday 05 August 2003 08:28, Frederic Lepied wrote: > David Walser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you didn't, please remove this rpmlint error: > > init-script-without-chkconfig-postin > > > > it's been discovered that not having the chkconfig-postin is the > > best way to have a service not set to start automatically upon > > installation (I discovered, Pixel agreed) > > Our policy is if a package is installed, it must be ready to run. So > we need to call %_post_service to follow this policy. What was the > original reason to make exceptions to this policy ?
IIRc, it was for package who could not run out of the box, for some reasons. I didn't follow closely the thread, but, in fact, having some service started only for some occasion can be good. To give a example, honeyd is not really useful out of the box, since it need to determine on which ip address it should respond. and arpd can do a lot of trouble if launched by default, since it claims some ip address on the network. So, i guess that it should become a warning, and, some exception should be added. -- Micka�l Scherer
