Ionut Biru wrote: > On 04/21/2011 02:18 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: >> 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. >> > > i think you are not understanding the process. > > if cronie is moved in core, it won't have a replaces=dcron. Only new > installations will get cronie by default instead of dcron. > How is that possible? Are you saying that the broken dcron will stay in core and there will two packages for cron? Otherwise i dont understand how it wont be replaced (for all users). ---- Greg
