Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (140 mails)

[Dirk Mueller <dmueller@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 05 February 2008, Reinhard Max wrote:

> The fact that an package installs something under /etc/cron.* doesn't
> necessarily mean the package doesn't work as designed without cron.

More verboseness please. Which package installs something under /etc/cron.*/ 
but works fine without that cronjob being called?

> The cron scripts might add optional functionality that is not needed 
> for the basic operation of the package.

Thats why we have Recommends: and Suggests: There is no excuse for leaving out 
the dependency though. 


Greetings,
Dirk


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