[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

Grigorios Bouzakis grbzks at xsmail.com
Thu Apr 21 11:50:06 EDT 2011


Yaro Kasear wrote:
>
> I'm still trying to understand WHY we suddenly feel the need to replace dcron 
> when its not even broken. Replacing packages with other packages purely 
> because they're new is something Fedora and Ubuntu would do, I though Arch 
> wasn't about arbitrarily replacing its defaults but using what was simple and 
> what works.
>
> Can someone explain to me why we think we need a new crond?
>

Because of these:
https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?string=dcron&project=1
Mostly https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18681

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Greg


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