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?