On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 05:53:41PM +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
I discussed this with Peter Schiffer and the end result was in the
future the man-db cron should be removed and man-db database should
be updated with rpm triggerand the cron job should be kept as is
until then, presicecly to prevent this from happening ( systemd
being pulled in when it should not or component magically expecting
it to be there ) and correct dependency on coreOS/baseOS components
would be kept.
Just make FESCO/FPC clean this up it was them who decided not to
make it mandatory what should or should not be migrated to timer
units and this is precisely the fallout I had expected from not
doing that.
I'm not seeing a problem here. If Peter said "no way! I'm migrating to timer
units", then maybe we would need to revisit. But as predicted, that's a
non-issue. There really is no crisis here — we can continue to make
incremental improvements as things come up, and if someone — you or anyone
else! —is interested in reviving a concerted effort to do
<
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/cron-to-systemd-time-units>,
I'm all for it.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader