[aur-general] xdg-autostart files in package

[Armin K.]

On 04/26/2013 05:13 PM, Ryan Delaney wrote:
> Apps should not add themselves to autostart on installation.
>
> Ryan
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 3:47 AM, Christoph Vigano <mail at cvigano.de> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've received a complaint about nagstamon which installs a .desktop file
>> in /etc/xdg/autostart and that I should please not install stuff in
>> xdg-autostart.
>>
>> Do we have any recommendations for this? Should I remove it or leave it
>> to the user to deactivate the autostarting of nagstamon by removing the
>> corresponding .desktop file?
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Christoph
>>
>>

I don't really see the problem if the package is intended to run as some 
kind of background process. Many packages install files to 
/etc/xdg/autostart (Think GNOME packages).