[[!comment format=mdwn username="joey" subject="""comment 1""" date="2018-12-01T21:39:14Z" content=""" One way is to enable Propellor.Property.Service.noServices during the install and revert it afterwards, but that does prevent any services being started while it's enabled. I don't know of a very good way to do this on a Debian system. If you can find one, I'm sure propellor can use it. It might be possible, when systemd is used, to first apply Propellor.Property.Systemd.disabled on the service that has not been installed yet. I have not checked if that works. """]]