use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?

Jerry Amundson jamundso at gmail.com
Tue Dec 9 15:19:40 UTC 2008


On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Jerry Amundson (jamundso at gmail.com) said:
>>        It is possible for several programs  fulfilling  the  same  or  similar
>>        functions  to  be  installed  on a single system at the same time.  For
>>        example, many systems have several  text  editors  installed  at  once.
>>        This gives choice to the users of a system, allowing each to use a dif-
>>        ferent editor, if desired, but makes it difficult for a program to make
>>        a  good choice of editor to invoke if the user has not specified a par-
>>        ticular preference.
>>
>>        The alternatives system aims to solve this problem.
>
> Not for something like $EDITOR, which is a per-user setting anyway.

Good point.

> I'm not sure why a dependency on vim-minimal is truly that bad.

Me neither. I love vi.

jerry

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