use fcron as default scheduler in Fedora?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Dec 9 15:12:06 UTC 2008


Jerry Amundson (jamundso at gmail.com) said: 
>        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 for something like $EDITOR, which is a per-user setting anyway.

I'm not sure why a dependency on vim-minimal is truly that bad.

Bill




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