Bug#733929: exim4-base: anacron instead of cron should be enough

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at debian.org
Thu Jan 2 10:53:06 UTC 2014


Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:33:25AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>> exim4-base currently depends on cron | fcron, but it looks like it
>> only needs jobs in /etc/cron.daily to be processed. These are also
>> processed by anacron.
>> 
>> So please add anacron as an alternative dependency.
>
> anacron pulls in cron anyway, so what is this change going to buy us?

anacron only recommends cron. exim4 is the only package preventing me
from removing cron from my desktop system.

Ansgar



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