On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 02:18:34PM +0100, Daniel Leidert wrote: > > Yeah, that's my reaction as well. The point is to run the job > > periodically. > > No. The configuration says CRON=1. It doesn't say PERIODIC_CHECKS=1. Your > behavior here is pretty similar to Microsofts: Let the user decide if updates > shouldn't be automatically installed and still install a bunch of them > automatically without his approval independent of his decision. > > I have enabled a cron-job, not a systemd timer unit. And I don't want you to > silently override this.
You haven't enabled a cron job, though. You've edited a file in /etc/default. The variable happens to be named CRON, but that was never a good choice. That name was introduced >15 years ago by a previous package maintainer, and is only there today due to inertia and a lack of real need to move to something else. Had the variable been named PERIODIC_CHECKS or something like that, would your objections still stand? noah
