[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

[Thomas S Hatch]

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:06 PM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:

> Am Wed, 6 Apr 2011 16:57:58 -0600
> schrieb Thomas S Hatch <thatch45 at gmail.com>:
>
> > All I want is a good decision to be made and have a crond that is not
> > buggy. Therefore I think that it is foolish not to present the
> > available options in an accurate light.
>
> fcron is absolutely not buggy as far as I can tell. I'm using it since
> years now and it always did what it should do. I tried dcron when it
> was adopted by this Arch user, but switched back to fcron pretty soon,
> because dcron was indeed not reliable.
>
> cronie is no option for me because of the lack of integrated anacron
> features.
>
> But all those arguments including not having a buggy crond have been
> discussed many times before by a lot of users, TUs and devs.
>
> But then dcron's new developer said that he wanted to fix those bugs
> and so dcron was kept as the default. This was the only reason as far
> as I recall.
>
> I understand Sven-Hendriks e-mail just as a reminder of this fact and
> that dcron's upstream still hasn't fixed the issue. I don't think that
> Sven-Hendrik wanted to start a new discussion about that even if it
> started again nevertheless.
>
> Heiko
>

Look, I agree with you, fcron is not buggy, and I did not call fcron buggy.
I called dcron buggy.

cronie has anacron features and I think is a good option.

fcron looks like a good option too, I just think they should both be
considered, thats all I am saying.