FS#10418 - dcron depends on vi

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Sebastian (sepo) - Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 20:18 GMT
Last edited by Greg (dolby) - Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

I think the dcron PKGBUILD should include vi as a dependency, because running "crontab -e" without vi being installed i get the following error.

/bin/sh: /usr/bin/vi: No such file or directory


Additional info:
dcron-3.2-3


Steps to reproduce:
pacman -R vi
crontab -e
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Closed by  Greg (dolby)
Thursday, 15 May 2008, 12:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 20:26 GMT
This is not a strict dependency. Additionally, vi should be installed by default and a user would have to remove the package first to do this.

This should be an optdepend, not a depend.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Wednesday, 14 May 2008, 20:28 GMT
A user is expected to all have packages in base installed. But i'll assign it anyway.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 15 May 2008, 01:44 GMT
Next step is that dcron should depend on nano because $EDITOR is set to nano on your system... Basic functionality of dcron is running cronjobs, which works without vi. The editor to edit your crontab depends on $EDITOR and defaults to vi if none is set.

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