dnf installs cron.hourly

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:55:57AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:45:03AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Miloslav Trmač <mitr at volny.cz> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <
> > berrange at redhat.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > Users shouldn't have to go searching out that kind of thing in a
> > > > > separate package IMHO, it could just be part of stock yum install.
> > > > > If it needs to be optional a config param would suffice, rather
> > > > > than the big hammer of installing/uninstalling extra RPM to enable/
> > > > > disable a feature.
> > > >
> > > > Yeah, we don't generally do configuration by package
> > > > installation/uninstallation.
> > > >
> > >
> > > More to the point,
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Starting_services_by_default
> >
> > That's about starting system services by default though, so isn't
> > directly relevant to the question of whether cron jobs are allowed
> > to be enabled by default. Do we have any package docs about cron
> > job enablement ?  I couldn't find any in my search attempts.
> >
> > I guess I always took that to include cron jobs, but you're right, it
> doesn't explicitly say so.  Maybe this needs clarification.

Yep, I think it would be worth explicitly documenting requirements
around cron jobs in the packaging guidelines, if we want to have any
rules in this area.

Daniel
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