dnf installs cron.hourly

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 09:55:57AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2013 11:33:24 +0000
> "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 07:16:27AM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > > I don't think users would expect that install of dnf would without
> > > asking (or control) automatically run dnf-makecache.
> > 
> > Heh. That's one of the things I love about DNF. No longer having to
> > wait a long time for repo downloads when runing 'dnf' because the
> > cron job has already cached it, is great. I wish yum would do this by
> > default too!
> 
> 
> There's a yum-cron package. It did just that for years.

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.


Daniel
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