On 13:03 Wed 24 Aug 2011, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Mittwoch 24 August 2011, 12:48:35 schrieb Patrick Lauer: > > > > If you sneakily add something to cron.daily by default you can get > > pretty nice coverage. But I guess anyone trying that in Gentooland will > > meet some rather unpleasant resistance :) > > > > Of course, we could place it in some blatantly obvious way into a default > configuration, together with a big fat message what it does and how to > quickly disable it. > > We'd get better coverage in an opt-out system than in an opt-in system. > > (First idea- package is pulled in by a default-on useflag and installs itself > into cron.daily. BEFORE it runs the first time it outputs said message and > asks for permission to proceed (which cannot be done in the cron job > obviously but we'd find a way).)
Sorry, but NO. If you want you can make a big noise message that asks users to install the cron-job but opt-out is not an option here. -- Thomas Kahle http://dev.gentoo.org/~tomka/
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