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

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:53:06AM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> 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.

Out of curiosity, how is anacron invoked if not from cron?

Greetings
Marc

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