On 2017-11-05 17:17, Rich Freeman wrote: > Distros will always have to do integration work, and that is fine. > That is the role of a distro. And sometimes distros have to roll > their own tools when they just aren't available. Once upon a time > service managers fell into that category. Now this is less the case.
What's a service manager? Is making cron care about missed jobs service management, but running daily/weekly/monthly jobs isn't? I'd find such a distinction quite tenuous. > There is of course nothing wrong if people want to implement things. > I just tend to prefer to stick with stuff that has an upstream that is > bigger than one distro. Well that's another thing. I will tend to agree when upstream is an independent project. But here the development seems to be driven 99% by RedHat. Look at the ChangeLog. I know of another project that's bigger than a distro ... now that it forced its way into all the others. And now I really shut up! -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet, fetch the TXT record for the domain.
