[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

Thomas S Hatch thatch45 at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 12:24:42 EDT 2011


On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Corey Johns <lists at n-co.de> wrote:

> fcron is pretty much the de facto cron of choice for anyone needing a cron
> without special case needs. A nice general cron program.
>
> I do wonder about the bureaucratic processes in place to facillitate such a
> switch, though.
>

The thing to do is contact the package maintainer and present the idea, and
ask what needs to be done to make the change.

I for one +1 to the move, I like dcron, but when it takes this long to fix
bugs upstream we need to unfortunately consider alternatives.


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