Bug#850435: starts daily, weekly, monthly targets at midnight

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 03:33:12PM +0100, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> I have a different proposal upstream that propose to get rid of
> run-parts completely.
> https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron/issues/47

As long as the jobs still run in a predictable order and serialized, I
don't care about implementation details.

> but on the other way this means every daily|weekly|monthly jobs
> will be started simultaneously.

And *boom* goes my virt-cluster. And my job with it. Bad idea.
Guarantee to keep cron around in the server environment for decades.

> > virtualized environment with many Debian systems.
> 
> These could easily deploy systemd config overides in /etc

Yes, but if you want people to use those features, you need to tell
them about them. Not everybody is made for upstream's docs with their
sometimes really painful teacher like diction.

> > Different priorities I guess?
> 
> Yup, it's hard to please different people with differents needs.

Just don't assume that your use case is valid for everybody, don't
tell people "you're doing it wrong", and don't change to many things
at once. It's not _that_ hard.

Greetings
Marc

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