Les Mikesell wrote:
Enrico Scholz wrote:
Jesse Keating <jkeating@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
Because this kind of dependencies (features which do not belong to
package's core functionality) are always bad. Cron can be used
completely without any kind of editor; e.g. when jobs are installed
by cfengine.
It works just fine until you try to use the functionality that looks up
$EDITOR, finds none and tries to fall back to vi, and doesn't find it
and crashes.
Crashing is a bug; a message that $EDITOR should be set and/or 'vi' be
installed a proper behavior.
Doesn't ubunutu have a scheme where trying to execute a missing program
suggests the package you need to install to get it? That's even better
behavior.
That only works in a shell. Not in all programs. However this has been
implemented already in PackageKit and the patches send upstream so
everybody can take advantage of it.
http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/12/05/command-not-found/
Rahul
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