[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#422347: Bug#422347: Bug#422347: can't get ntpq without ntpd

[Josip Rodin]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 08:44:55PM +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Josip Rodin wrote:
> > I don't find your lack of understanding of my original report relevant,
> > then? What part of not having excess daemons by default don't you
> > understand?
> 
> The part I asked you about: Why don't you disable that the ntpd daemon starts?  
> Surely you don't mind that the binary is installed.  So just arrange that it 
> is not started at boot.

I don't like that, because it requires extra intervention, where no such
intervention was necessary in oldstable, and it really should not be
necessary, because it's really a BCP to separate server and client
software in different packages. Obviously the case for separation is
stronger for obvious applications such as DNS clients and servers,
SMTP clients and servers, HTTP clients and servers, ... but I see no
reason why to switch to a different model for NTP clients and servers.

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