[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Fri, 8 Apr 2011 06:45:29 -0400
Kaiting Chen <kaitocracy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:33 AM, Dieter Plaetinck
> <dieter at plaetinck.be>wrote:
> 
> > > On the other hand this issue could be solved in a different way
> > > without any further discussions. There's a need for installing one
> > > cron daemon, but no need for a default cron daemon. It's pretty
> > > the same issue as with the bootloaders. There's no default
> > > bootloader anymore and currently it doesn't make sense anymore to
> > > define one bootloader as the default, because they all have
> > > different features and it depends on the system configuration
> > > which bootloader is the best. In the development isos AIF asks
> > > the user to choose one of currently two bootloaders (grub and
> > > syslinux), more (grub2 and lilo) could or should be added. And
> > > this bootloader is automatically chosen by AIF in the package
> > > selection. The same could be made for the cron daemons. Put every
> > > cron daemon into [core] and let the user choose his preferred
> > > cron daemon during installation.
> >
> > Can we do the same thing for cron daemons? Don't other packages
> > contain crontab files, or something like that?  I.e. is it possible
> > to just swap crons and keep a (stock) Arch system working?
> > If so, it *could* be possible to do what you suggest, but don't
> > forget, Arch primary objective is simplicity, not choice.
> >
> > If there is a cron daemon that does what we need, we should just
> > make it the default, period.
> >
> 
> I think we're talking about what the default daemon should be, as in
> the one that comes installed with the system on a clean install.

Maybe you should actually read the text I quoted. Just a thought.

Dieter