On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Heiko Baums <lists@baums-on-web.de> 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.