use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 18:12:13 UTC 2008


Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> writes:
> 
>>> Because this kind of dependencies (features which do not belong to
>>> package's core functionality) are always bad.  Cron can be used
>>> completely without any kind of editor; e.g. when jobs are installed
>>> by cfengine.
>> It works just fine until you try to use the functionality that looks up
>> $EDITOR, finds none and tries to fall back to vi, and doesn't find it
>> and crashes.
> 
> Crashing is a bug; a message that $EDITOR should be set and/or 'vi' be
> installed a proper behavior.

Doesn't ubunutu have a scheme where trying to execute a missing program 
suggests the package you need to install to get it?  That's even better 
behavior.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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