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Convenient? To me adding cron jobs/systemd timers without question is user-hostile.

• JdeBP 10y ago
  It's not added without question. It's added by dint of the administrator taking the explicit action to install the package. This is actually the Debian practice that the systemd people tried to take account of in the design of their presets system. Installing a package on Debian not only installs the software, but it automatically configures and runs it, too. Hence the idea that systemd presets can be made to default to "enable" on Debian and default to "disable" elsewhere. This is a Debian norm. It's one that various Debian developers have tried to change over the years. The convention of having separate "run" packages exists and a few people adhere to it. (bcron-run, socklock-run, qmail-run, dqcache-run, bincimap-run, ...) But that convention is not (yet) the Debian norm. This is even though people have been regularly pushing for it since the turn of the century. * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=107862 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=107862 * https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804018 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804018