----- Original Message ----- > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:48:41 AM > Subject: Re: dnf installs cron.hourly > > 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@xxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange > > > <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > 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. > > Daniel The list of files sitting in my /etc/cron.*/ directories would certainly indicate that even if there is such a rule it is being ignored. Not that I necessarily have a problem with that given the jobs that are there (mlocate, cups, logrotate, man-db are all examples I don't remember setting up myself). Steve -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
