I have done a bit of research about anacron usage in Debian. I downloaded and unpacked all packages that depend/recommend/suggest anacron, and have looked at what kind of use they make of anacron.
The result is that there are _no_ packages that actually make use of anacron's special features. The only thing that Debian actually automatically does with anacron is execution of cron.daily/weekly/monthly. All other usage of anacron is manual intervention of the local admin anyway. Considering that most advanced time controlled processes in Debian in the future are likely to be implemented as systemd timer units, I think that we're pretty safe her in assuming that the vast majority of anacron installations will only invoke cron.daily/weekly/monthly. This also means that if a local admin wants to have things differently, she is pretty free to change the configuration without effect on other things than cron.daily/weekly/monthly. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Leimen, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 6224 1600402 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 6224 1600421
