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From: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Subject: Re: Configuring a service but not starting it on boot
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 21:41:13 +0530
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> Attached is a hack I did a while ago.

Hacks like the one you showed could work, but it would be nice to have a
general purpose #:auto-start? property common to all services. Is there
such a feature? If not, could we implement such a feature?