FOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributions [LWN.net]

FOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributions

Posted Feb 11, 2011 20:36 UTC (Fri) by spaetz (subscriber, #32870)
In reply to: FOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributions by mpr22
Parent article: FOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributions

> Do they support cron's configuration language in every detail at least as well as cron does?
Oh come on. This is like asking for an MS Office replacement that has 100% compatability with .docx files and reads them "at least as well as Word does". Are you serious?

But if you were asking if there are vixie-cron replacements that can basically do everything that cron can do, yes. Personally, I like fcron a lot: http://fcron.free.fr/description.php

Especially on laptops that are not 24/7 on.

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FOSDEM: Collaboration (or the lack thereof) between distributions

Posted Feb 11, 2011 21:06 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

remember that the OP was advocating that the distros should just drop any package that they think they need needs a patch that the upstream doesn't accept.

If the distros are going to do that, then they will not include cron, and any replacement for it had better ber drop-in compatible or you are going to seriously annoy a lot of sysadmins (especially since the uncooperative upstreams will change year to year, so packages will come and go)

not to mention the fact that this would also make these distros not linux, as one of the upstreams that just about every distro patches (with patches that are not acceptable upstream) is the kernel.