[arch-general] Change Arch's default crond

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

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 at lutzhaase.com>:
>>
>>> 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).

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Greg