Excerpts from David Runge's message of July 23, 2022 18:38:
Currently the timer which triggers this service is supposed to be vendor enabled (i.e. symlink in /usr/lib/systemd/system/timers.target.wants/) and run daily with a deviation of up to 12h. Members of the DevOps team have raised concerns about the interval as we do not really have a clear picture about how many Arch Linux installations there are world-wide to get numbers on expected median load for this.
I'm fine with it existing, and I would be fine with it being enabled in a vendor preset, but I'm against it being statically enabled in /usr. This is not something that's critical for the regular functioning of the system, and so is not something I think users should have to mask to get rid of rather than be able to just disable it.
But daily seems a bit frequent to me. Anything more frequent than weekly feels too often to me, and even that feels a bit frequent.
-- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg :: SA0DEM :: he/him
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