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From: William McArthur <sandymac@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] other cron than dcron
Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 16:02:05
Message-Id: 3CD2FAC9.90001@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] other cron than dcron by Frank Thieme
1 Frank Thieme wrote:
2 > Hi!
3 >
4 > I'm using fcron which is very nice, but every time I do an 'emerge
5 > --update system' it wants to install dcron. How can I stop emerge from
6 > doing this? It's really annoying...
7 >
8 > Bye...Frank
9
10 Frank,
11 the whole cron system got a reworking. While it wasn't broken it is now
12 cleaner. If you do:
13
14 emerge sys-apps/fcron
15
16 your problem should go away. (fcron moved from app-admin to sys-apps)
17
18 I'm not a cron expert so I could have the details wrong.
19
20 Sandy McArthur