[outworlder]

I guess preferences will mostly depend on how the system is being used. If this is your desktop machine sure, do crontab -e and add a line. If it is a system sitting in a colo or cloud provider, it's likely that it's been configured through automation anyways so "locality" doesn't matter. Your scripts know where stuff is located.

[traverseda]

My scripts an also do things like assemble a crontab, since it doesn't matter.