[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 21.04.2011 08:32, Kaiting Chen wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 11:32 AM, David C. Rankin <
> drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 04/06/2011 10:34 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
>>
>>> Upstream stability makes sense. If redhat is behind cronie, then that
>>>>>  seems like the logical choice.
>>> Why is this logical? Is it the developer what makes a software good or
>>> is it the features and the stability? If Redhat's cronie has less
>>> features than fcron then fcron is the logical choice, of course.
>>>
>>  You are correct. The long term stability was just my thought. Like I said
>> earlier in my message -- It doesn't matter to me which cron we have -- as
>> long as we have one that works :)  I have no say in the matter, so I will,
>> of course, defer to whatever decision you guys reach. I just want to make
>> sure we have a cron by default :)
>
> So what's the status here? I pulled cronie into [community-testing] a couple
> of days ago and will probably merge it into [community] soon. So that's the
> one I vote.
>
> But regardless of which one we choose in my opinion the sooner we get rid of
> dcron the better. --Kaiting.
>
I second this suggestion. cronie upstream isn't dead at all. cronie is a
drop-in unlike fcron which was favored earlier. Kaiting said he would
even be willing to become a developer to maintain this in [core] himself
in case no other developer was  interested.

Is there anything that would keep us from making it default and also
replace dcron?

-- Sven-Hendrik