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

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Thu Jan 2 12:20:36 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 01:08:23PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> writes:
> > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:53:06AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> >> anacron only recommends cron. exim4 is the only package preventing me
> >> from removing cron from my desktop system.
> >
> > Out of curiosity, how is anacron invoked if not from cron?
> 
> At system startup via the init script (or systemd service or upstart
> job) or using systemd timers (tough this isn't shipped with the anacron
> package).

So this is actually a patch making systemd migration easier. Thanks
for clarifying that.

Greetings
Marc

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