Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Simon McVittie writes ("Re: do packages depend on lexical order or {daily,weekly,monthly} cron jobs?"):
> Trying to make this point more clearly because you seem to be confusing
> systemd with systemd-cron:

You are completely right.  I was not aware that systemd-cron was not
part of systemd.

> systemd is entirely capable of running Vixie cron as a daemon (as is done
> in default installations of stretch and buster), or running cronie as
> a daemon. systemd-cron is an alternative to those, using systemd rather
> than a separate daemon as the long-running component that waits for the
> right time.

Right.  And as you say it is therefore systemd-cron whose behaviour is
at issue, not systemd's.

Ian.

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