use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

That only works in a shell. Not in all programs. However this has been 
implemented already in PackageKit and the patches send upstream so 
everybody can take advantage of it.

http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2008/12/05/command-not-found/

Rahul