dnf installs cron.hourly

[Adam Williamson]

On 15/03/13 08:30 AM, Miloslav Trmač 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.

In this case it seems perfectly logical. The thing in question is a cron 
script. You want it, install it. You don't want it, don't install it. 
How would this be implemented with a config parameter in a way which 
wouldn't be more messy? I mean, wouldn't you have to implement something 
absurd like a bit of code in yum to read the config value and fiddle 
with the presence of the cron script? Ew.
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