anacron

[Dmitriy Kropivnitskiy]

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 10:21 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 06:06:35PM +0000, Scott James Remnant wrote:
> 
> > I think it's a sensible default for both desktops and laptops, which are
> > both quite often powered down.  We have things like lvm in the default
> > install despite their non-use for desktops and laptops, we should have
> > things like anacron in the default install despite their non-use for
> > servers.
> 
> LVM and similar tools are part of Base due to their applicability to server
> and recovery tasks.  anacron is something to consider for Desktop, and not
> Base.

Listen to yourself, what you are saying is anacron is not needed in Base
because it is only for desktops, but LVM is OK in Base because it is
only for servers. I was under the impression, that the primary focus of
Ubuntu was Desktop and not server. Maybe I was wrong.