On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I vote for fcron because it has dcron and anacron features. Two > separate packages is indeed a regression and not really KISS like > because anacron can only do anacron and dcron can only do dcron while > fcron can do both. And on a desktop system which doesn't run 24/7 you > need both features at the same time. On servers which run 24/7 it > doesn't harm if the cron daemon has anacron features, too. > Having one tool doing 2 different tasks is quite in contradiction with the KISS philosophy. That said, I think the rest of your argument is valid, kiss isn't the holy grail, sometimes having a tool that is less simple, less stupid and more powerful is a good idea. So going with fcron sounds fine. Confusing simplicity for the user and simplicity for the software just seems way too common.
