[systemd-devel] [PATCH] TODO: timer unit generation

Josh Triplett josh at joshtriplett.org
Wed Apr 17 15:11:41 PDT 2013


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:04:24AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> 
> > +  - unit generator for compatibility with crontab and cron.d
> 
> We kind of decided to port the 40-60 things that use the .d/ dirs to
> native units right away, and leave cron as it is, and not parse its
> config files from systemd.
> 
> If people want cron, they should install it; new or common stuff
> should just not pull it in anymore. The default install should not
> require it.

I figured this fell in the general area of "wouldn't do it ourselves,
but would probably take a clean patch", which seemed like a good use of
TODO.

- Josh Triplett


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