As a persistent network service Exim should not be enabled by default[0]. Still, when installing the package on a fresh rawhide VM it is running after reboot. This is with exim-4.82-1.fc21.x86_64 but note that F20 is also affected. Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install exim 2. reboot 3. exim is listening on {::,0.0.0.0}:{25,465,587} Additional info: Discussion on -devel: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2014-April/198293.html [0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Starting_services_by_default
The culprit seems to be alternatives --initscript
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle. Changing version to '22'. More information and reason for this action is here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.