Matt Simmons the Standalone Sysadmin writes:
In the Linux world, there are two ways of treating a service/daemon installation.
The Right Waytm (which is what Redhat does) is to install the service but not start it immediately. This only makes sense. The administrator hasn’t had time to configure it yet, it may be harmful, etc, etc. You should install the software, make it available, put skeleton config, whatever, but leave it up to the administrator to actually turn on.
The Wrong Way is what Debian / Ubuntu does, where software that’s being installed will begin running immediately following the completed installation. This is wrong. It’s bad. It was, in my opinion, a dumb design decision.
That being said, it was a design decision made by the distribution. If you are a person who packages software for a distribution that has made certain design decisions,
STOP TRYING TO OUTWIT THE DISTRIBUTION
Read more at: Dear Package Maintainers: Stop Being Clever
