[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

[Heiko Baums]

Am Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:41:13 +0200
schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com>:

> We all know the situation with dcron (it can't keep time properly) and
> it still is broken. No fix (or any changes for that matter) have gone
> into its upstream git for over a year now. There have been multiple
> yeah-I'll-take-a-looks from various people as well as its upstream
> maintainer and no work was done.
> 
> I certainly don't want to offend anybody but I think it is time
> another crond was made quasi default by swapping it for dcron in base
> group. I know that users can do that themselves but the we shouldn't
> suggest packages we know are broken by putting them into the base
> group. Perhaps fcron is a fine choice.
> 
> Bug report for reference: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18681

I always voted for fcron in these discussions. It has cron and anacron
features combined and can be used for every use case as far as I know.
And it just works.

In my opinion fcron is the best choice and making it the default cron
daemon is long overdue.

Heiko