Package: gnome-core
Version: 1:3.22+12
Severity: normal
Hi,
investigating, why anacron is installed on my system, it seems to be
pulled in via Recommends of gnome-core and task-desktop.
Looking for the original reason, why anacron was added, I found:
meta-gnome3 (1:3.8+7) unstable; urgency=medium
[ Josselin Mouette ]
* gnome-core recommends anacron, because some of the GNOME packages go»
to the brink of unusability if nothing rotate logs.
The changelog for tasksel is not particularly helpful:
tasksel (2.58) unstable; urgency=low
[ Per Olofsson ]
* Add anacron to desktop task.
Regarding log rotation: nowadays, logrotate ships a native .timer unit,
which handles this task in a much better way then anacron.
Basically, all the important tasks afaics ship a native .timer unit
besides the legacy cron jobs, so we don't really need anacron anymore to
properly support systems which aren't running 24/7.
I therefor think we should consider dropping anacron from both
meta-packages, to have one less (useless) daemon installed by default.
Thoughts, comments, concerns?
Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages gnome-core depends on:
ii adwaita-icon-theme 3.30.0-1
ii at-spi2-core 2.30.0-4
ii baobab 3.30.0-1
ii caribou 0.4.21-5
ii dconf-cli 0.30.0-1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend 0.30.0-1
ii eog 3.28.4-1
ii epiphany-browser 3.30.1-1
ii evince 3.30.2-1
ii evolution-data-server 3.30.2-2
ii firefox 63.0.1-1
ii fonts-cantarell 0.111-2
ii gdm3 3.30.1-1
ii gedit 3.30.2-1
ii gkbd-capplet 3.26.0-3
ii glib-networking 2.58.0-1
ii gnome-backgrounds 3.30.0-1
ii gnome-bluetooth 3.28.2-2
ii gnome-calculator 3.30.1-1
ii gnome-characters 3.30.0-1
ii gnome-contacts 3.30.1-1
ii gnome-control-center 1:3.30.2-1
ii gnome-disk-utility 3.30.1-1
ii gnome-font-viewer 3.30.0-1
ii gnome-keyring 3.28.2-1
ii gnome-logs 3.30.0-1
ii gnome-menus 3.13.3-11
ii gnome-online-accounts 3.30.0-1
ii gnome-online-miners 3.30.0-1
ii gnome-session 3.30.1-1
ii gnome-settings-daemon 3.30.1.2-1
ii gnome-shell 3.30.1-3
ii gnome-shell-extensions 3.30.1-1
ii gnome-software 3.30.1-1
ii gnome-sushi 3.30.0-1
ii gnome-system-monitor 3.30.0-1
ii gnome-terminal 3.30.2-1
ii gnome-themes-extra 3.28-1
ii gnome-user-docs 3.30.1-1
ii gnome-user-share 3.28.0-1
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.28.1-1
ii gstreamer1.0-packagekit 1.1.11-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base 1.14.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.14.4-1
ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio 1.14.4-1
ii gvfs-backends 1.38.0-2
ii gvfs-fuse 1.38.0-2
ii libatk-adaptor 2.30.0-2
ii libcanberra-pulse 0.30-6
ii libglib2.0-bin 2.58.1-2
ii libpam-gnome-keyring 3.28.2-1
ii libproxy1-plugin-gsettings 0.4.15-3
ii libproxy1-plugin-webkit 0.4.15-3
ii nautilus 3.30.3-1
ii pulseaudio 12.2-2
ii sound-theme-freedesktop 0.8-2
ii system-config-printer-common 1.5.11-3
ii system-config-printer-udev 1.5.11-3
ii totem 3.26.2-1
ii tracker 2.1.4-1
ii yelp 3.30.0-1
ii zenity 3.30.0-1
Versions of packages gnome-core recommends:
ii anacron 2.3-26
ii libproxy1-plugin-networkmanager 0.4.15-3
ii network-manager-gnome 1.8.18-2
Versions of packages gnome-core suggests:
pn gnome <none>
-- no debconf information
