On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Daniel P. Berrange
<berrange(a)redhat.com>wrote:
> 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(a)volny.cz> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <
> berrange(a)redhat.com>
> > > 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.
>
> I guess I always took that to include cron jobs, but you're right, it
doesn't explicitly say so. Maybe this needs clarification.
Yep, I think it would be worth explicitly documenting requirements
around cron jobs in the packaging guidelines, if we want to have any
rules in this area.
Daniel
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