Raul Miller: > I think there's a good answer to this question, but I doubt the > above workaround to the current package implementation of cron > will occur to very many people.
Ian Jackson: How about taking cron out of rc*.d ? Plausible. Remember, this is a space-cramped laptop. Here, I wind up paying for about 70k of storage to get a 6.7k executable. [This is more an administrative annoyance factor than a space issue.] More importantly, as these rc*.d/???cron files aren't conffiles, this loses every time you do a dselect install with a new cron-*.deb file accessible. Perhaps it's time to make a way of registering changes to non-conffiles as "local-conffiles" in /var/lib/dpkg/status? -- Raul
