[Nix-dev] Packaging a tool that registers in crontab

[Luca Bruno]

On 02/09/2014 12:53, Damien Cassou wrote:
> I don't understand how that will help. What about distributions with
> no systemd? What about the fact that it's the tool that writes and
> updates the cron jobs (with the period and arguments). As the
> packager, I have no clue about the profiles the users will have. 
Confirming. I think you can report an issue in nixpkgs. It is annoying,
systemd must not be the only way to set a timer to run a command. Since
ever, users were able to use crontab.