use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 9 18:25:20 UTC 2008
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
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