Jesse Keating <jkeating(a)redhat.com> writes:
> Because this kind of dependencies (features which do not belong
to
> package's core functionality) are always bad. Cron can be used
> completely without any kind of editor; e.g. when jobs are installed
> by cfengine.
It works just fine until you try to use the functionality that looks up
$EDITOR, finds none and tries to fall back to vi, and doesn't find it
and crashes.
Crashing is a bug; a message that $EDITOR should be set and/or 'vi' be
installed a proper behavior.
Enrico