Re: What package contains the time daemon?
On 2015-07-26 14:25:20 +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 26 Jul 2015 at 13:59:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:38:45 Michael Biebl wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes. You actually need to do that. As long as ntp is installed,
> > > systemd-timesyncd won't start.
> > > The assumption here is, that if the admin explicitly installed ntp, it
> > > should be preferred of systemd-timesyncd.
> > > See
> > >
> > > #
> > > /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable-with-time-daemon.co
> > >nf [Unit]
> > > # don't run timesyncd if we have another NTP daemon installed
> > > ConditionFileIsExecutable=!/usr/sbin/ntpd
> > > ConditionFileIsExecutable=!/usr/sbin/openntpd
> > > ConditionFileIsExecutable=!/usr/sbin/chronyd
> >
> > So ntp won't actually harm anything. It is just unnecessary.
>
> It is necessary to purge it if you want to use systemd-timesyncd. If you
> prefer to use ntp instead of systemd-timesyncd it is not unnecessary.
Can't the systemd configuration be changed without having to purge
ntp (e.g. to be able to switch between them easily)?
IMHO, it is bad to be forced to uninstall a package just to make
some other package work.
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