Bug#1995: run-parts on laptops

[Raul Miller <rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu>]

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?

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Raul