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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

Hi all,

I'd like to have some input about the idea i wrote in bug #6848 [1], and
possibly one of our gurus implementing it because I'm a bit busy
currently :)

Here's the basic idea so you don't have to go to the bug if you don't
care about this ;)
- add a new init facility 'cron' and have all different cron providers
  provide that
- add a SCHEDULER or CRON provides to all cron providers
- optional_depend on SCHEDULER/CRON in exim and do the choice of crontab
  format in POST_INSTALL based on the value of the init facility 'cron',
  i.e.  base it on what cron is actually used, with a default of doing
  nothing except issue a warning when the user uses an unknown cron
  implementation

The problem this is trying to solve is that the exim spell depends on
some cron implementation while it works fine without any cron, and that
exim does crontab editing based on which cron is used.

[1] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6848

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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