You'll find yourself in opposition to Major Hayden, the author of the headlined article, who wrote in May: > automatic management of running daemons shouldn’t

You'll find yourself in opposition to Major Hayden, the author of the headlined article, who wrote in May: > automatic management of running daemons shouldn’t be handled by a package manager. There's also the argument that determining whether a daemon should or should not be automatically started very much is the province of the service management subsystem, as automatic service start/stop/restart is very much what service management properly deals in.