please deactivate services by default!

[Matthew Woehlke]

Colin Walters wrote:
> O
>> This particular problem doesn't concern me since my work does not depend on
>> sendmail. But I think that a logical error is being made here. For repeat
>> users, I don't see a real difference between updates and clean installs. I,
>> for one, am very willing to install a new release since it will clean out
>> accumulated junk. The only thing that I will keep from the old release is
>> /home. I don't think that I would find it acceptable that previously assumed
>> features just stopped working. Breaking cron or side effects of cron is
>> unacceptable.
> 
> If you only keep /home, you'll lose your crontab (since they're in
> /var/spool/cron, not /home).

Note that in my example, I specifically talked about setting up [my] 
cron[tab] again.

> In the longer term I would like to see cron-like functionality
> provided by and integrated with GNOME,

What about KDE, lxde, others?

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