reassign 505292 util-vserver tags 505292 + wontfix thanks Hi
I tend to agree with this. The packages should be removed instead. In any case I'll reassign it to util-vserver again. As you do not consider it as a bug I marked it as wontfix. Best regards, // Ola On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 12:07:44AM +0100, Harald Weidner wrote: > Hello, > > > The util-vserver package aims to only start the services that are vital > > to the guest persisting, and any other service should be enabled by the > > administrator, rather than running by default consuming resources > > without any point. It is the position of util-vserver that > > administrators should enable the services that they want. If you want > > cron, you should enable cron. > > I consider it a rather faulty solution to install cron but disable it. > util-vserver also installs logrotate, and lograte explicitely depends > on cron. So the dependency is formally fulfilled but logrotate won't > work as expected. > > If the util-vserver project really thinks that cron in a vserver is waste > of resources, the consistent solution would be to purge logrotate and cron. > This would have the advantage that if the administrator ever installs any > other package which depends on logrotate or cron, cron will be installed > and work. > > Moreover the current solution is instable. As soon as a new cron package > appeares on security.debian.org and is installed, cron will be activated. > > > Now, I believe that a lot of people debootstrap guests and expect many > > fundamental system elements to be enabled, as they are creating > > mini-servers > > I don't expect many things to be present in a minimal vserver. In fact, I > believe that the basic installation as done be newvserver could be stripped > by at least 25 packages, mainly hardware/network related stuff. But what > is installed should work as intended. > > > Seeing as upstream finds this intentional, its probably best for > > newvserver to re-enable cron for people, rather that util-vserver to > > revert the change from upstream. > > That's okay for me. > > Regards, > Harald > -- --------------------- Ola Lundqvist --------------------------- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://inguza.com/ +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
