Comment 10 for bug 424065

Soren:

There are a number of packages which do not activate automatically when they installed, but instead require changing a configuration line in /etc/default/xxx to "RUN=yes" or some such.

The vmbuilder EC2 plugin would have no trouble tweaking this after installing the ec2-init package.

What do you think about using this approach to avoid breaking Ubuntu systems?

I suspect a lot of people looking to get started with EC2 will find "ec2-init" in the package lists and install it without any idea that it really isn't what they want. I though there were situations where removing "splash" is sometimes preferable, but I could be mistaken.