[aur-general] Autostart of program on installing via install file

Sven-Hendrik Haase sh at lutzhaase.com
Thu May 26 23:32:30 UTC 2016


Yeah, that package should definitely not be doing that.

On Fri, May 27, 2016 at 12:15 AM, Lex Black <autumn-wind at web.de> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I stumpled upon an AUR package where the install file executes the
> installed program[0].
> My assumption is, managing the start of services is done by the user and
> shouldn't happen on installing a package.
>
> And now I'm wondering if there is a rule about this (didn't find one) or
> more like an agreement to not do such a thing.
> Or is it even perfectly fine to implement it.
>
>
> Best regards
> Lex
>
> ______
> [0]
>
> https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/xfce-polkit.install?h=xfce-polkit-git
>


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