Am Thu, 21 Apr 2011 08:48:04 +0200 schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I second this suggestion. cronie upstream isn't dead at all. cronie > is a drop-in unlike fcron which was favored earlier. Is it such a drop-in like the new dcron when dcron upstream was adopted by this Arch user? Better look at the features and the use cases (don't only think of some 24/7 servers, but also think of the desktop users) and not at some small differences in the crontab syntax. It's definitely not such a big work to re-adjust a few crontab entries if this is necessary at all. And this work has to be done only once and can probably be done with sed. And cronie still has only 4 votes in AUR after one year! Why? Could have a reason as packages which are useful and/or necessary for several people are usually getting a lot more votes in much less time. I can be wrong, but I really have the feeling that switching the default cron daemon to cronie will be a big mistake. And wasn't there someone who wanted to test both daemons and write a feature comparison? Nothing heard about it anymore. Heiko
