People who would install debsums do that for - checking once or sometimes and/or - checking periodically
In the first case they will not appreciate having a cron job started automagically. In the second case they would probably decide themselves frequency of checking and scheduling times. That said, if the maintainer likes using debconf it is perfectly legitimate - else one would asks himself why using debconf at all for any program instead of a /etc/default snippet and some handy configuration file. But it would be much useful allowing people to choose also frequency at least. So a menu with None Daily Weekly Monthly would be more effective. Of course IMHO a simple /etc/default/debsums (with a -none- default) would be much more easy and equally simple. A consciuos admin would check that first of all. And only a consciuous admin would install debsums - well a paranoid one would _not_ use debsums for sure :) - so using debconf is a probably superfluous. -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
