Le Lun 25 février 2013 18:21, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" a écrit : > On 02/25/2013 12:51 PM, Rex Dieter wrote: >> Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: >> >>> Should the requirement on Cronie be added to the spec file? >>> or >>> Should those cron-jobs be package in a separate sub package which would >>> depend on Cronie? >> Is the running of cron jobs essential to the proper function of any >> current >> package? If not, personally, I'd rather not worry too much about adding >> dependencies and consider it optional. > > There are few affected components that have a hard dependency on cron > binary being in place and in general from my pov no package should ever > *expect* anything to be available since I personally think doing so is a > bad workflow but other might disagree in that regard. And I'd be very careful before qualifying any cron job as 'non essential". A lot of them are maintenance jobs you can get by without *some* time, but that will cause behaviour degradation or even failures in the long run if not run at all. -- Nicolas Mailhot -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
