use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?
Patrice Dumas
pertusus at free.fr
Tue Dec 9 08:54:30 UTC 2008
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:13:10PM -0600, Jerry Amundson wrote:
> >
>
> Hmm, sounds familiar... oh, right, the alternatives man page.
>
> It is possible for several programs fulfilling the same or similar
> functions to be installed on a single system at the same time. For
> example, many systems have several text editors installed at once.
> This gives choice to the users of a system, allowing each to use a dif-
> ferent editor, if desired, but makes it difficult for a program to make
> a good choice of editor to invoke if the user has not specified a par-
> ticular preference.
>
> The alternatives system aims to solve this problem.
Not really. The alternatives system is useful if
* the different applications have compatible command line options
* the setting makes sense as a system-wide setting, not as a user
setting.
--
Pat
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