rpcbind is enabled by default, and gnome-boxes requires it

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 09:16:29AM -0700, Andrew Lutomirski wrote:
> rpcbind has this script:
> 
> postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> if [ $1 -eq 1 ] ; then
>     # Initial installation
>     /bin/systemctl enable rpcbind.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> fi
> 
> nfs-utils has this script (excerpted):
> 
> postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> if [ $1 -eq 1 ]; then
>     # Package install,
>     /bin/systemctl enable nfs.target >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>     /bin/systemctl enable nfs-lock.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
>     /bin/systemctl start nfs-lock.service >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
> 
> nfs-utils is also pulled in by libvirt.
> 
> Why is nfs special enough to deserve this kind of automatic
> enablement?  I would argue that nfs requires so much manual
> configuration in order to do anything useful that requiring admins to
> turn it on would be just fine.

  It isn't special.  It looks like it's using older RPM
snippets.  Current snippets act accordingly to system
preset.  Fedora default preset does not enable NFS.

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