Re: Can we maybe reduce the set of packages we install by default a bit?

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On Fr, 12.04.19 11:35, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski (dominik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:

> > Interestingly I think Google Chrome needs this when it installs,
> > though it seems nonsensical to me. (Chrome is installed by about 50%
> > of our users given some informal stats, so writing it off would be
> > shooting ourselves in the foot.) That's something the Workstation
> > folks may want to work with them to fix in a more systemd-ish way.
>
> Chrome doesn't require atd explicitly (nor is it pulled in by any of its
> dependencies).
>
> It does use it in %post to sneak in a cron job to to add a repo config
> file and its GPG key trust behind your back:
>
> service atd start
> echo "sh /etc/cron.daily/google-chrome" | at now + 2 minute > /dev/null 2>&1
>
> So, actually not having atd installed won't break Chrome as it will
> just ignore the 'at' command execution error due to 'exit 0' a few
> lines below it.

Just out of curiosity, why does a web browser need a daily chrome job?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Berlin
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