Re: ntp package. Client by default?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 01:07:39PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
> For instance, I wouldn't see any objection in splitting the package in
> the same way sshd is (there is a "client" and a "server" part) and set
> the desired configuration (as server or client) for each of them.
I would. The answer to people wanting different configurations is not always to
provide different packages. There's a lot of overhead in doing so and it's
rarely worth the cost IMHO. Rather the majority case be provided for by
default, and the exceptional case by tweaking /etc/default/FOO.
> The problem I see here is that it seems that ntpd itself is designed
> kinda in a "monolithic" way and to make it acting as "server" or "client"
> is somehow fuzzy and the same goes for its default configuration settings.
Yes.
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