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
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