On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:

For a while now on OS X, cron is no longer used by default. This is now the job of launch services.

FYI, systemd has similar capabilities and packages have slowly been using them

http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html

So it is possible we might not ship cron by default in a future Fedora release. Users of course will be able to install it and use it just like they can use a MTA if they wanted to now.

Rahul