On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 05:42:50AM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On tor, 2012-03-29 at 18:18 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > > I'd suggest that anacron seems like the wrong place to configure this. > > Whether you want to run a cron job while on battery depends entirely on > > the cron job. I'd suggest that anacron should default to running cron > > jobs on battery, and individual cron jobs should include any necessary > > "deferrable" logic themselves. > > Possibly, but on Debian time, it will take you about five years to > design guidelines on when to do this, create the tools to control this, > and convince a sufficient number of cron job maintainers to implement > this. In the meantime, doing this in anacron gets most people what they > want most of the time.
Kinda pessimistic. I'd guess "one Debian release", which is only about two years. :) More to the point, all but the "convince a sufficient number of cron job maintainers" step just requires someone to actually do it, rather than talk about it. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
