Re: Anacron/cron suggestion

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

> > My suggestion was to merge cron and anacron into one package
> 
> I have talked to the cron maint.  I think this is a little heavy
> handed.  What needs to be done is that I be able to affect crontab
> in some way.  This will be sorted out.  Like xdm being removed from
> X, not everyone needs anacron.  and Debian should work as expected
> from the start.  anacron would hide things that many people would
> expect to see.
> 
> Debian is as much a server as a workstation.  We should keep this in
> mind.

OK, good point.  How about the other, simpler possibility, that
installation of anacron diverts cron's crontab?

   Julian

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