[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> On 22/04/11 00:30, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
>> Ionut Biru wrote:
>>> if this will happen, the steps are very simple
>>> 1) remove dcron from core
>>> 2) add cronie/fcron to core in base group and depending on the package, 
>>> it might have conflicts=dcron but not replaces
>>>
>>> this way the existent systems will still have a "working" cron and new 
>>> installations will have the new cron
>>>
>> 
>> Has that ever happened before?
>> That means the existing systems will have a package from base thats not
>> supported by the Arch developers.
>
> The package will no longer be in the 'base' group, and most likely end
> up in the AUR. Therefore, it will not be a supported package, and the
> output of `pacman -Qm' will reflect that.
>
>> But since its not replaced, it would make it an infinite part of Arch so
>> it should also be supported.
>
> As I mention above, my understanding is that dcron will be moved to the AUR.
>
>> Plus, the 2010.05 ISOs will still (try to) install it, but it wont be
>> there, and there wont be an upgrade path either.
>
> In offline installations, the package will exist on the installation
> media. On netinstalls, the new cron daemon will get installed to the
> target system instead.
>

An unsupported package installed by the official installation media.
Like i said it doesnt make sense to me. But you got a plan. So just go
with it. And hopefully there'll never be another debate about cron
around here in the future.

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Greg