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Bug 332243 - app-text/man2html should not install a cron job without user input
Summary: app-text/man2html should not install a cron job without user input
Status: RESOLVED LATER
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High QA (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Reported: 2010-08-11 12:32 UTC by Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED)
Modified: 2010-10-27 03:41 UTC (History)
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Description Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2010-08-11 12:32:29 UTC 
It is pretty annoying for any package to install a cronjob without asking the user for input or the admin to specifically enable it.
Comment 1 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-08-11 13:16:38 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> It is pretty annoying for any package to install a cronjob without asking the
> user for input or the admin to specifically enable it.

You want to discuss this on g-dev?
Comment 2 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2010-08-11 14:10:35 UTC 
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > It is pretty annoying for any package to install a cronjob without asking the
> > user for input or the admin to specifically enable it.
> 
> You want to discuss this on g-dev?
> 

Not really. QA policy has just masked a package for removal because it wrote cron configuration (among other reasons) and net-analyzer/munin has an emerge --config step to install its crontab too. Those are just a few examples off the top of my head.
Comment 3 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-08-11 14:41:14 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > (In reply to comment #0)
> > > It is pretty annoying for any package to install a cronjob without asking the
> > > user for input or the admin to specifically enable it.
> > 
> > You want to discuss this on g-dev?
> > 
> 
> Not really. QA policy has just masked a package for removal because it wrote
> cron configuration (among other reasons)

app-admin/webmin, I guess.  It does not install a cron.daily file like man2html:
| »···# Bug #194305
| »···addpredict /var/spool/cron/crontabs


> and net-analyzer/munin has an emerge
> --config step to install its crontab too. Those are just a few examples off the
> top of my head.

And if you grep the tree for packages installing to cron.(hourly|daily|weekly|monthly) you will find many ebuilds installing a cronjob without asking for userinput.
Comment 4 Torsten Veller (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2010-08-11 14:41:28 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > (In reply to comment #0)
> > > It is pretty annoying for any package to install a cronjob without asking the
> > > user for input or the admin to specifically enable it.
> > 
> > You want to discuss this on g-dev?
> > 
> 
> Not really. QA policy has just masked a package for removal because it wrote
> cron configuration (among other reasons)

app-admin/webmin, I guess.  It does not install a cron.daily file like man2html:
| »···# Bug #194305
| »···addpredict /var/spool/cron/crontabs


> and net-analyzer/munin has an emerge
> --config step to install its crontab too. Those are just a few examples off the
> top of my head.

And if you grep the tree for packages installing to cron.(hourly|daily|weekly|monthly) you will find many ebuilds installing a cronjob without asking for userinput.
Comment 5 Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) archtester gentoo-dev Security 2010-10-27 03:41:03 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)

> And if you grep the tree for packages installing to
> cron.(hourly|daily|weekly|monthly) you will find many ebuilds installing a
> cronjob without asking for userinput. 
> 

yup, closing bug