Services that can start by default policy feedback

[Garrett Holmstrom]

On 2/24/2011 8:14, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> Some people have been asking us to extend the systemd unit file header
> to include information about whether a service should be on or off by
> default (Michal!), like chkconfig had it. But after thinking about this
> we came to the conclusion that this information is not specific to
> services at all, but to the distro image you install, and hence has no
> place in the unit files. Ideally unit files are shipped along the
> upstream sources, and whether a service is enabled by default is not an
> upstream decision, but genuinely one not only of the distro but by the
> particular distro "profile" installed. Hence the place to encode this
> information is not the upstream shipped unit files and not packaging
> spec files, but other distro specific list.

So whether or not a given package will be enabled by default after I 
tell yum to install it depends on which spin, if any, that I initially 
installed my system with?  Why should the initial package set that my 
system came up with have any effect at all on what happens when I 
install something new?