On 10 Nov 2013, at 10:48, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> ie either the file is named such that it is ignored by cron (preferable IMO) >> or the entries in them are commented out. > > I want the opposite. > > I'm kinda fed up installing packages that don't enable themselves. > > 'pkg install xorg' is not enough to get a working xorg. You have to > enable hal and dbus and then restart (so things come up in the right > order; manually starting them doesn't work) in order to get X working.
I agree that is a pain in the arse, however it IS existing policy. I don't think changing it here is right - if the policy is to change it should be changed everywhere. > If people are really worried about this, then I suggest a couple of > package options for this stuff: > > * whether to default enable the package or not; > * whether to default enable the cron scripts or not. > > Please install the cron scripts by default. Please then write up a > simple rc.conf style setup where the cron scripts can check a config > file to see if they should run. I don't want to have to freaking > delete, rename, etc cron.d files. I just want the package files to be > almost-untouched and have an option of working out of the box. > > Please, please allow an option to make this crap work out of the box already. A rc.conf script sounds good to me. That still won't get you want you want though because the port/pkg install wouldn't touch it? (would it?) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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